lieutenants

noun

plural of lieutenant
as in assistants
a person who helps a more skilled person the drug lord has a pair of brutal lieutenants who do most of his dirty work for him

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Recent Examples of lieutenants Kealty was named a Sharks assistant general manager last week, joining Tom Holy and Joe Will as GM Grier’s top lieutenants. — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 21 July 2026 Zager’s lieutenants, Judy Boyd and Kevin Callahan, and Zlatan’s primary producers, Joel Santos and Zac Kenworthy, combined with Lowe to put him in position to score. — Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 20 July 2026 From what my lieutenants tell me, it’s being well-received, the numbers are good. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026 Back at the tail end of the 1960s, founder Bruce McLaren and his lieutenants conceived and built the M6GT in just 11 weeks. — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 13 July 2026 Urman is cast as a central figure in the complaint alongside her lieutenants, Renna and Lieber. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026 UConn men’s hockey coach Mike Cavanaugh lost one of his top lieutenants, Nick Peruzzi, to Wisconsin this week. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026 But the series falls under the purview of one of Friedlander’s top lieutenants, Brett Fetter, Head of Worldbuilding & Genre Series, who didn’t start at Amazon until February. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 2 June 2026 Colorado fired one of Jared Bednar’s longtime lieutenants, Ray Bennett, last May after the power play failed in the Dallas series. — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lieutenants
  1. assistants
  2. aides
  3. apprentices
  4. deputies
  5. aids
  6. sidekicks
Noun
  • Pullen has hired former Westminster assistants Neema Salimi (offensive coordinator), Byron Curtis (linebackers coach), Bill McGahan (director of scouting) and Joe Sturniolo (special teams coach).
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The postsecondary programs include curriculums for HVAC certification, massage therapy, nursing assistants, phlebotomy, solar energy technician and semiconductor cleanroom operator, among other concentrations.
    — Ana Goñi-Lessan, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • Burnham plans to work there at least one day a week, alongside a full-time staff of aides, experts and civil servants.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • To say that this was an eventful day for congressional aides and senate staff would be an understatement.
    — Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of aides
Noun
  • There, King Charles works with head gardener Gráinne Ring and her team of 15, including apprentices, to cultivate the 15 acres of blooms, hedges, trees and more.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
  • According to accounts by Wright’s apprentices, after procrastinating on drawing any plans for nine months, Wright designed the house in two hours in September 1935 while the Kaufmanns were driving to his office to review them.
    — Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026
Definition of apprentices
Noun
  • Moments later, the witness saw smoke coming from the area and notified sheriff’s deputies.
    — Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Please keep her family, her fellow deputies, and the entire Lexington County community in your prayers.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of deputies
Noun
  • These invisible aids help prevent wheelspin and a driver’s loss of control.
    — Matt Degen, AJC.com, 31 July 2026
  • Charged has offered a fair bit of electronic aids on board, starting with ABS, traction control, hill hold (hill start assist), and hill descent assist.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 July 2026
Definition of aids
Noun
  • The critical brain is still zonked, and along with it, its pesky sidekicks, self-doubt and anxiety.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • Wacky animal sidekicks once felt vibrant in a holistic world of artifice; here, a goggle-eyed rooster just looks diseased.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Definition of sidekicks

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