Aid - English meaning

verb

Encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular to commit a crime.

Usage examples:

He was not guilty of murder but was guilty of aiding and abetting others

verb

To help or encourage a person or thing to do something, esp. something wrong or illegal

Usage examples:

Shady lawyers abetted the company’s officers in stealing the funds.

verb

Help (someone), typically by doing a share of the work.

Usage examples:

A senior academic would assist him in his work

noun

An act of giving help, typically by providing money.

Usage examples:

The budget must have an assist from tax policies

noun

The action of helping someone by sharing work.

Usage examples:

The work was completed with the assistance of carpenters

noun

Help, especially money or resources that are given to people, countries, etc. when they have experienced a difficult situation

Usage examples:

Need/seek assistance the minister revealed that the banking industry needed assistance from the tax…

verb

Help or benefit.

Usage examples:

No amount of struggle availed charles

noun

Use or benefit.

Usage examples:

He begged her to reconsider, but to no avail

noun

The rear surface of the human body from the shoulders to the hips.

Usage examples:

He lay on his back

adverb

In the opposite direction from the one that one is facing or travelling towards.

Usage examples:

He moved back a pace

verb

Give financial, material, or moral support to.

Usage examples:

He had a newspaper empire backing him

noun

Help or support.

Usage examples:

The foreign secretary won the backing of opposition parties

verb

Give financial, material, or moral support to.

Usage examples:

He had a newspaper empire backing him

noun

Support or help

Usage examples:

If i go ahead with this project, can i count on your backing?

noun

The action or process of working together to the same end.

Usage examples:

They worked in close cooperation with the british tourist authority

noun

The process of working with another company, organization, or country in order to achieve something

Usage examples:

Economic/international/global cooperation, cooperation with sb/sth marketing networks have been enh…

noun

The action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope.

Usage examples:

Thank you for all your support and encouragement

noun

Words or behaviour that give someone confidence to do something

Usage examples:

Children need lots of encouragement from their parents., i could never have achieved this without t…

verb

Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or resources.

Usage examples:

They helped her with domestic chores

noun

The action of helping someone to do something.

Usage examples:

I asked for help from my neighbours

exclamation

Used as an appeal for urgent assistance.

Usage examples:

Help! i'm drowning!

verb

Formally support or endorse (a nomination or resolution or its proposer) as a necessary preliminary to adoption or further discussion.

Usage examples:

Bridgeman seconded maxwell's motion calling for the reform

noun

A sixtieth of a minute of time, which as the si unit of time is defined in terms of the natural periodicity of the radiation of a caesium-133 atom.

Usage examples:

Torrance squeezed the trigger, waited twenty five seconds and fired again.

verb

Transfer (a military officer or other official or worker) temporarily to other employment or another position.

Usage examples:

I was seconded to a public relations unit

idiom

Be available or ready for a certain function or service

phrasal verb

Be present while something bad is happening but fail to take any action to stop it.

Usage examples:

He was beaten to the ground as onlookers stood by

phrasal verb

Be ready to deal or assist with something.

Usage examples:

Two battalions were on their way, and a third was standing by

noun

Assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.

Usage examples:

The wounded had little chance of succour

verb

Give assistance or aid to.

Usage examples:

Prisoners of war were liberated and succoured

noun

Help given to someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need

Usage examples:

Her organization gave succour and strength to those who had been emotionally damaged., to succour t…

verb

Bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.

Usage examples:

The dome was supported by a hundred white columns

noun

A thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright.

Usage examples:

The best support for a camera is a tripod

verb

The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

verb

Strengthen or support physically or mentally.

Usage examples:

This thought had sustained him throughout the years

noun

An effect or facility on a keyboard or electronic instrument whereby a note can be sustained after the key is released.

Usage examples:

She has a decent voice, but it was her sustain on the more difficult notes that really impressed.

verb

Confirm or support (something which has been questioned).

Usage examples:

The court upheld his claim for damages

verb

To defend or maintain a principle or law, or to state that a decision that has already been made, esp. a legal one, is correct

Usage examples:

The supreme court upheld california’s term limit measure.

verb

To state that a decision which has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct

Usage examples:

Uphold a decision/ruling/appeal the court is said to be upholding its decision., when he took offic…