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asst.

asst. is the abbreviation of assistant.

Meaning of assistant

Noun

assistant (plural assistants)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
    • a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. A person who assists or helps someone else.
  3. (UK) Sales assistant.
  4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
    Synonyms:
    wizard

See all 6 meanings of assistant

Forms of asst.

pluralassts.

Questions about asst.

What is asst. the abbreviation of?
Asst. is the abbreviation of assistant.

Words near asst. in the dictionary

  1. ASSRs
  2. assrun
  3. assrunning
  4. assruns
  5. asst
  6. asst.
  7. asstard
  8. asstards
  9. asstastic
  10. asstd.
  11. asston

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Adapted from Wiktionary: asst. (page history and authors); assistant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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