'AS Servant' 1881 Census - what does AS mean?

[PH54]

This is an entry for my GGM, Alice Phillips:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2W9-5R8Q
Thanks for help

[JenB]

Here's a snip from the original 

[Norfolkman47]

The Familysearch transcriber has capitalised and separated the letters but in the original it looks like the word "as".

I'm wondering whether that word was added to signify that Alice was being treated as an employee despite being a relative of the head of the family.

[Girl Guide]

I notice that Allice is a step-daughter on the original.  Her mother is listed as a Public Inn Keeper so it is highly likely that Allice served in the pub.

[youngtug]

Maybe an attempt at shortening assistant

[PH54]

Hi to all, and thanks for looking up the original together with your suggestions. I think you are right, my GGM's story is that she helped run the pub and looked after her siblings (their father had died age 36 in 1873, her mother had remarried). Kind wishes, Peter