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Assistant

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

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Similar meaning 2

Subordinate 84% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Subordinate 84% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Narrower term 25

Accomplice 76% connected

A cooperator.

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Attendant 76% connected

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.

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Attender 76% connected

One who, or that which, attends.

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Auxiliary 76% connected

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

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Cat's-paw 76% connected

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

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Coadjutor 76% connected

One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.

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Confederate 76% connected

United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.

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Deputy 76% connected

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a represen…

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Dresser 76% connected

One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.

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Enforcer 76% connected

One who enforces.

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Instrument 76% connected

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical…

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Lieutenant 76% connected

An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.

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Manakin 76% connected

Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South Am…

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Manikin 76% connected

A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Pawn 76% connected

See Pan, the masticatory.

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Poser 76% connected

One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.

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Prompter 76% connected

One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.

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Secretary 76% connected

One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.

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Sidesman 76% connected

A party man; a partisan.

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Subordinate 76% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Subsidiary 76% connected

Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.

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Tender 76% connected

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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Underling 76% connected

An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow.

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Waterer 76% connected

One who, or that which, waters.

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Broader term 1

Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Assist 74% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

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Assist 74% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

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Adjunct 92% connected

Conjoined; attending; consequent.

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Help 92% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Helper 92% connected

One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Supporter 92% connected

One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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