administrative assistant

American  

noun

1. a person employed to aid an executive, as in a corporate department, by coordinating such office services and procedures as the supervision, maintenance, and control of the flow of work and programs, personnel, budgeting, records, etc., for the entire department.

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Example Sentences

Madigan was born in Chicago on September 11, 1950 to a journalist father and a mother who worked as an administrative assistant and did community theater in her spare time.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

He was sent to India for the BBC in 1965 - at first as an administrative assistant, but in time he began to take on a reporting role.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

She quit her job as an administrative assistant two years ago, confident she’d easily land another one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 18, 2025

“Most people my age just kind of scribble,” said Johnson, 20, who works as an administrative assistant at a medical imaging clinic.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

“And Gib is an administrative assistant without peer,” Arnold finished.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen