assistant keeper

collocation in English

meaningsofassistantandkeeper

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assistant
noun[C]
uk
/əˈsɪs.tənt/us
/əˈsɪs.tənt/
someone who helps someone else to do ...
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keeper
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkiː.pər/us
/ˈkiː.pɚ/
a person who takes care of animals or is in charge of valuable objects, a ...
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(Definition ofassistantandkeeperfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In this same museum a juniorassistantkeeperearns less per year than a municipal dustman earned even before settlement of the recent strike.
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Theassistantkeeperresidence is located right to the west, but geographically lower.
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The duplex allowed for a keeper andassistantkeeperto live on-site and still have some privacy.
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The house contains two identical apartments (presumably for the keeper and theassistantkeeper, but ordinarily the assistant got a smaller, not identical apartment).
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In 1856, he becameassistantkeeperof manuscripts, and in 1867 was promoted to the post of keeper.
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The fog keeper andassistantkeeperlived at the actual station.
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During his time there he was madeassistantkeeperof the natural history department and became an expert on crustaceans and molluscs.
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Later he became anassistantkeeperin the same department, until 2002.
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Konig anglicized his name upon his appointment asassistantkeeperin 1807.
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By 1954, the station consisted of the lighthouse tower, fog-alarm building, stores building, oil stores, head keeper's dwelling, and the assistant keeper's dwelling.
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Probably the only buildings on the south end of the island at this time were the lighthouse and the assistant keeper's house.
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A frame addition was added to the keepers quarters to accommodate assistant keepers.
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A similar house (without a lantern) built next to it was the assistant keeper's dwelling.
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Circa 1933, one of the assistant keepers suffered a breakdown after two years at the lonely station.
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An assistant keeper's house was added in 1908, and the light was upgraded to an incandescent vapor lamp in 1914.
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Two houses were constructed, a principal lighthouse keeper's house close to the tower, and a one-story assistant keeper's house a bit further.
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The assistant keeper's house was used for many years as the pilot's cottage, and now serves as a museum and a tourist information centre.
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In 1908, the brick assistant keepers house was built.
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A new assistant keeper's house was constructed in 1910, and in 1929 the keeper staff was reduced.
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