A Topical Dictionary: Search for assistance

Dictionary Results For "assistance" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

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Noun

Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

Translations

Japanese: 援助 (enjo)

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French

From assistentia.

Noun

#Noun|assistance
audience

Related terms

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Assistance \As*sist"ance\, n. [Cf. F. assistance.]
1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor;
support.
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Without the assistance of a mortal hand. --Shak.
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2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [Obs.]
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Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord
mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John
Cavendish. --Fuller.
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3. Persons present. [Obs. or a Gallicism]
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WordNet assistance
n 1: the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or
furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an
assist with the housework"; "could not walk without
assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered
his help in unloading" [syn: aid, assist, help]
2: a resource; "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance
to depressed areas" [syn: aid, help]

Moby Dictionary
advantage , aid , alimony , allotment , allowance , alterative ,
analeptic , annuity , appropriation , assist , avail , backing , balm ,
balsam , benefit , bounty , comfort , corrective , cure ,
depletion allowance , dole , ease , fellowship , financial assistance ,
good offices , grant , grant-in-aid , guaranteed annual income , hand ,
healing agent , healing quality , help , lift , ministration , ministry ,
office , offices , old-age insurance , pecuniary aid , pension ,
prescription , price support , profit , protection , public assistance ,
public welfare , receipt , recipe , reinforcement , relief ,
remedial measure , remedy , rescue , restorative , retirement benefits ,
scholarship , service , sovereign remedy , specific , specific remedy ,
stipend , subsidization , subsidy , subvention , succor , support ,
supporting , tax benefit , therapy , upholding , use , welfare ,
welfare aid , welfare payments