administrative assistant

noun

Definition of administrative assistant

: a person whose job is to support an executive, group, department, or organization especially by handling administrative tasks (such as data entry, correspondence, filing, and scheduling appointments) Steven Azeez, the administrative assistant who sorts and delivers the office mail, says one day he made four trips to Mr. Maier's desk.— Eleena De Lisser, Wall Street Journal, 24 Sept. 1999

First Known Use of administrative assistant

1841, in the meaning defined above

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