Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet
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Merriam-Webster
— a person who assists someone : HELPER
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Macmillan
— someone whose job is to help another person in their work, for example by doing the easier parts of it
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Collins
— Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
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assistants
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1 use of ‘assistant’ in A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle