Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To provide assistance, support, or relief to.
- intransitive verb To provide assistance, support, or relief.
- noun The act or result of helping; assistance.
- noun Something that provides help, support, or relief, such as money or supplies.
- noun Something, such as a device, that provides improvement.
- noun An assistant or helper.
- noun An aide or aide-de-camp.
- noun A monetary payment to a feudal lord by a vassal in medieval England.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To help; assist; afford support or relief; promote the desire, purpose, or action of: as, to
aid a person in his business, or an animal in its efforts; to aid a medicine in its operation. - To promote the course or accomplishment of; help in advancing or bringing about; forward; facilitate: as, to
aid the recovery of a patient, or the operation of a machine; to aid one's designs. - noun Help; succor; support; assistance.
- noun He who or that which aids or yields assistance; a helper; an auxiliary; an assistant: as, Coleridge's “Aids to Reflection.”
- noun In feudal law, a customary payment made by a tenant or vassal to his lord, originally a voluntary gift; hence, in English history, applied to the forms of taxation employed by the crown between the Norman conquest and the fourteenth century.
- noun An aide-de-camp: so called by abbreviation.
- noun plural In the manège, the helps by which a horseman contributes toward the motion or action required of a horse, as by a judicious use of the heel, leg, rein, or spur.
- noun A deep gutter cut across plowed land.
- noun A reach in a river.
- noun In the navy, an officer on the staff of an admiral whose duties are similar to those of an aide-de-camp to a general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To support, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
- noun Help; succor; assistance; relief.
- noun The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.
- noun (Eng. Hist.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.
- noun (Feudal Law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
- noun An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
- noun (Law) a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit.
- noun to beseech and claim such assistance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To (give)
support (to); tofurther theprogress of; to help; toassist . - noun
Help ;assistance ;succor ,relief . - noun The person who
promotes or helps in something being done; ahelper ; anassistant . - noun Something which helps; a
material source of help. - noun UK A
historical subsidy granted to thecrown byParliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort - noun UK An
exchequer loan . - noun law A
pecuniary tribute paid by avassal to hisfeudal lord on special occasions. - noun An
aide-de-camp , so called by abbreviation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun money to support a worthy person or cause
- verb give help or assistance; be of service
- noun the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- noun the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- verb improve the condition of
- noun a resource
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Think it is about time Tony Snow resigned because he has provided “aid and comfort to our enem..strike that..aid and comfort to the democrats.”
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It testified to a hearty belief that there should be institutions well equipped in which provision should be made for the higher education of those called to leadership, as preachers, teachers, etc. It especially called attention to the opinion that the _gifts of the North in aid of educational work_ in the South should proceed _upon lines of intelligence, equality and discriminating selection, and that great care should be taken by the people of the South in authorizing appeals for outside aid_.
The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898 Various
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As developing country voices, including the powerful emerging donors, are increasingly heard in international relations, and particularly in the corridors of the OECD, so the term "aid" feels ever more old-fashioned.
Development co-operation: aid by any other name | Jonathan Glennie 2011
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Disturbingly, NONE of the promised 1.15 billion in aid from the U.S. has materialized.
Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs Mark Schuller 2010
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But the tuition increases and the bad economy are raising the need for financial aid much faster than our investment in aid is moving.
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At a recent debate hosted by the Overseas Development Institute, Brian Atwood, the chairman of the OECD's development assistance committee DAC and the man ultimately responsible for making a success of the Busan meeting, expressed his dislike of the term "aid".
Development co-operation: aid by any other name | Jonathan Glennie 2011
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Disturbingly, NONE of the promised 1.15 billion in aid from the U.S. has materialized.
Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs Mark Schuller 2010
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Disturbingly, NONE of the promised 1.15 billion in aid from the U.S. has materialized.
Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs Mark Schuller 2010
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Just a week after announcing plans to repay $45 billion in aid from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the nation's largest lender said Wednesday it had cut a check to the government for the full amount.
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Since 1949 Israel has received $106 billion dollars in aid from the US.
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