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noun ADJ. chief, senior | personal I'll ask my personal assistant to deal with this. | administrative, care, catering, checkout, clerical, laboratory, library, production, research, sales, shop, technical She took up a post as research assistant in the Department of Pharmacology. VERB + ASSISTANT employ (sb as), have She had a clerical assistant to do her paperwork. | get, hire (sb as), recruit (sb as) I'm getting a new assistant next month. | sack PREP. ~ to assistant to the Production ManagerJOB
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