technical assistant

collocation in English

meaningsoftechnicalandassistant

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technical
adjective
uk
/ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/us
/ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/
relating to the knowledge, machines, or methods used in science ...
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assistant
noun[C]
uk
/əˈsɪs.tənt/us
/əˈsɪs.tənt/
someone who helps someone else to do ...
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(Definition oftechnicalandassistantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftechnical assistant

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The expert can become thetechnicalassistant, rather than the technocratic replacement, of the public.
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In this kind of mechanical menage-a-trois between the human lovers and theirtechnicalassistant, new levels of intimacy are achieved by increasing the mutual flow of information.
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Example (4) was spoken by a lecturer to thetechnicalassistant.
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The terms of appointment to the grade oftechnicalassistant, which superseded the grade of supervisor, mention the period of tenure as normally four years.
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Thetechnicalassistantis an integral part of the teaching world.
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I was at that timetechnicalassistantto a consulting engineer.
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No. 3 was chieftechnicalassistantand had no qualifications.
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It is quite easy in these days for a rather obscuretechnicalassistant, lowly paid, to make an invention which is of great benefit to a particular company.
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Onetechnicalassistantand one helper were appointed to recycle paper and maintain the plant.
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This was the beginning of six years of work between 1943 and 1949 as atechnicalassistantin the aviation industry.
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For this purpose, junior researchers with child or children can be allocated atechnicalassistantfor support of their research.
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Within project grants, there are fellowships, scholarships, research grants, training grants, experimental and demonstration grants, evaluation grants, planning grants,technicalassistantgrants, and many others.
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The "easy to drive" clause effectively precluded from the prizes any vehicles needing a travelling mechanic ortechnicalassistantsuch as a stoker.
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This is sufficient for a position as atechnicalassistantin industry or in academic settings.
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It is indeed very striking how few, when recollecting their studio experiences, even acknowledge that their technical assistants played any part whatsoever in the creative process.
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The ratio is 3.5 technical assistants to one member of the scientific officer class.
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We regard our technical assistants and others who help us as being skilled in their own right and certainly not as people with substandard skills.
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It has been extremely difficult to secure the services of first-class technical assistants.
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One of the five important points was the shortage of technical assistants and staff and the inability of the local authority to acquire any.
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He is supported by an alternate executive director for each institution and by a team of technical assistants.
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