assistant vs subordinate

assistant

adj
  • Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. 

  • Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. 

noun
  • A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program. 

  • Sales assistant. 

  • A person who assists or helps someone else. 

subordinate

adj
  • Placed in a lower class, rank, or position. 

  • Descending in a regular series. 

  • dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause 

  • Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority. 

verb
  • To make subservient. 

  • To treat as of less value or importance. 

  • To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy. 

noun
  • One who is subordinate. 

How often have the words assistant and subordinate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )