Assistant vs Colleague - What's the difference?
assistant | colleague |
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
* Beattie
(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
*, II.3:
A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task.
A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.
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, title= To unite or associate with another or with others.
As nouns the difference between assistant and colleague
is that assistant is someone who is present; a bystander, a witness while colleague is a fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.As an adjective assistant
is having a subordinate or auxiliary position.As a verb colleague is
to unite or associate with another or with others.assistant
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Alternative forms
* assistaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-) (attributive)- an assistant surgeon
- Genius and learning are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Anagrams
* ----colleague
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Noun
(wikipedia colleague) (en noun)A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.
Synonyms
* coworker * workmate * See alsoSee also
Do not confuse with: * college * collageVerb
(colleagu)- Young Fortinbras,/ Holding a weak supposal of our worth/...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,/...hath not failed to pester us with message/ Importing the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father.'' - ''Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)