Assistant and Colleague

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Assistant noun - A person who helps a more skilled person.

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Colleague is a synonym for assistant in helper topic. In some cases you can use "Colleague" instead a noun "Assistant", when it comes to topics like people, associate, comrade, co-operator.

Nearby Words: assist, assistance, assisting

Colleague noun - A fellow worker.

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Assistant is a synonym for colleague in associate topic. You can use "Assistant" instead a noun "Colleague", if it concerns topics such as people, comrade, co-operator, collaborator.

old	old assistant	old colleague
good	good assistant	good colleague
female	female assistant	female colleague
best	best assistant	best colleague
Other adjectives: friendly, male, bad, young, attractive, personal, new, senior, former, junior, mysterious, aforementioned, lab, younger.

Mark Reasonable: Telling your girlfriend that you aren't cheating on her with your assistant/colleague and that said colleague isn't into you.

Source: Literature / Bridget Jones
Turns out that the colleague had stolen his assistant's robot and, on top of that, her "boyfriend" is another robot, also built by the assistant.

Source: Actually, That's My Assistant
On psychological crime drama Perception, Daniel's assistant, Max Lewicki, and his old friend/colleague, Paul, are both black.

Source: Useful Notes / Deggans' Rule

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