assistants
uh-SIS-tuhnts/əˈsɪstənts/
- 1Plural of assistant.
The surgeon relied on her assistants to keep the instruments ready.
New assistants spend their first week shadowing experienced staff.
Note
A plural that serves every noun use of assistant: a surgeon's helpers, British sales staff, the software wizards that walk users through a task, even the bystanders and witnesses of obsolete usage. The adjective never takes the -s. In assistant managers or assistant editors the word works attributively, so the plural falls on the noun that follows and never on assistant itself.
assistants is a form of assistant
assistant, noun: A person who helps someone else, especially with their work, duties, or responsibilities. Full entry
- Forms
- assistantassistants plural
- Spelling
- assistant → assistants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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