Cryptic crossword clue
Personal assistant with right standard 3

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word PAR

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We know that "standard" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case standard = par.
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What does PAR mean?

PAR noun
  1. A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.
  2. A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
  3. An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
PAR adjective
  1. Equally distant from one another at all points.
  2. Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
  3. (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
  4. Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
PAR noun
  1. A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
  2. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
  3. A digression; the use of such digressions.
  4. Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
PAR noun
  1. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
  2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
  3. An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
  4. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
  5. An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
PAR preposition
  1. By; with.
PAR noun
  1. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
  2. Equality of condition or circumstances.
  3. (mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
  4. A hole in which a player achieves par.
  5. An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
PAR verb
  1. To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.
PAR noun
  1. Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
  2. A young leveret.

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