HELPER

1. a person who helps a skilled tradesman on the job and thus learns how to do the job actions. A helper differs from an apprentice or trainee in that he has often had little or no formal trade or technological education and may be lacking in the theory behind the job actions of a trade. 2. a blue-collar term for which assistant is the corresponding white-collar term.

one of the most powerful incidents in terms of charge on the early track. It is actually mitosis or cell splitting. —History of Man Glossary (app. 11.7.90)