1 a person who helps someone else to do a job or who holds a less important position in an organization:
2 an employee who helps someone in a more senior position to do their job:
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.
Special attention should be paid to isomorphisms in type systems used in proof assistants.
Because such lengthy computations cannot be verified by hand, some mathematicians want to use software proof assistants to verify the correctness of these proofs.
They in turn trained research assistants in those regions where additional raters were employed.
The conversion from oral to printed presentation has been successfully carried out by the editor and his assistants.
The research assistants had to read out the questions to those villagers who were illiterate.
In each case this was done at fixed points by research assistants, rather than at each clinical encounter.
Medicines counter assistants from several of the network pharmacies were also involved in focus group discussions in project three.
At annual visits to villages the principal research worker and other assistants continually checked and confirmed the demographic events.
