Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of assisting.
- n. Aid; help: financial assistance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A being present; presence; attendance.
- n. The persons present; spectators; audience.
- n. Help; aid; furtherance; succor; a contribution in aid, by bodily strength or other means.
- n. An assistant or helper; assistants collectively.
- n. Hence, specifically In English common law and American colonial law, a general name for a somewhat undefined body of subordinate parish or town officers or auxiliaries, apparently including, as sometimes used, the ex-officers, in their customary function of advisers.
- n. In American history, a writ issued by a superior colonial court, on alleged precedents of the English Court of Exchequer, authorizing any officers of the crown, in the process of executing the acts of trade, to summon assistance and enter and search any premises. The attempt to use such writs in Massachusetts, defeated in 1761, was one of the abuses which led. to the revolution. Synonyms Aid, support, backing, relief.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.
- n. obsolete An assistant or helper; a body of helpers.
- n. Obs. or a Gallicism Persons present.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a resource
- n. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
Etymologies
- Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assisto. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“ Financial assistance - offshore companies are usually not prohibited from providing \ "financial assistance\" for the acquisition of their own shares, which avoids the needs for \ "whitewash\" procedure in certain financial transactions.”
“Financial assistance - offshore companies are usually not prohibited from providing \ "financial assistance\" for the acquisition of their own shares, which avoids the needs for \ "whitewash\" procedure in certain financial transactions.”
“In Austria, for example, a family that wants to build a Passive House can get €35,000 in assistance from the Austrian government.”
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“It embodies the aim to bring together short term assistance with long term development.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Murphy: USAID: Building Resiliency In The Horn of Africa
“BRAUN: Well, you know, in Hollywood, people have what they call assistance, as well as bodyguards.”
“This assistance is available not only for workers in the humanities and social sciences, but also for workers in the arts.”
“The prayer of my inmost heart for this assistance is the only light that shines upon my fears.”
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
“Then we can have somone who actually screens the welfare systems so the people who need the SHORT TERM assistance gets it and not the illegal $ makers who have no taxable income.”
“Washington County pays $203,040 and Clackamas County pays $25,000 in "assistance" each month”
Is it time for the city to fold on the "Heritage Building"? (Jack Bog's Blog)
“That kind of assistance is still allowed under the law without invoking the waiver.”
The Washington Post: Obama waiver allows U.S. aid to 4 countries using child soldiers
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