Meaning of assistant In English

• 0 someone who helps someone else to do a job:

  • an administrative/office assistant

  • an assistant editor/manager

  • a sales/shop assistant

• 1 a person who helps someone else to do a job or who holds a less important position in an organization:

  • an assistant coach/professor

  • My assistant will show you around the factory.

• 2 an employee who helps someone in a more senior position to do their job:

  • assistant to sb assistant to the director of the Institute of Science

• 3 someone who serves customers in a store:

  • She worked as an assistant in a local bookshop.

• 4 used as part of someone's job title to show that their job is below the level of a more senior person, and that they help that person to do their job:

  • assistant director/manager, etc. She had previously served as assistant vice-president for finance at MIT.