Aid

Word AID
Character 3
Hyphenation aid
Pronunciations /eɪd/

Definitions and meanings of "Aid"

What do we mean by aid?

To provide assistance, support, or relief to. intransitive verb

To provide assistance, support, or relief. intransitive verb

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. 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. 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

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.

Help; assistance; succor, relief.

A helper; an assistant.

Something which helps; a material source of help.

An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.

An exchequer loan.

A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.

An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Aid

The word "aid" in example sentences

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.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

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_. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the tuition increases and the bad economy are raising the need for financial aid much faster than our investment in aid is moving. ❋ AP (2010)

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". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Disturbingly, NONE of the promised 1.15 billion in aid from the U.S. has materialized. ❋ Mark Schuller (2010)

The company has also asked for an additional 3.50 billion rupees in aid from the government to upgrade infrastructure at its manufacturing plants. ❋ R. Jai Krishna (2010)

And if the Taliban were receiving three billion a year in aid from the US as well as buying and selling US Senators. as well as conducting spying operations against the US IN the US, I think quite a few lefties would complain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since 1949 Israel has received $106 billion dollars in aid from the US. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He argues further that $billions in aid from the US will greatly benefit the American economy once Mexicans start making decent wages with which to buy American goods. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The airline industry lost $5 billion from Sept. 11 to Sept. 30 and requested $24 billion in aid from the federal government. ❋ Unknown (2002)

At the end of my visit to Pakistan, I sat with a group of journalists trying to fathom why Nawaz Sharif, when still Prime Minister, had reportedly turned down an offer of several billion dollars in aid from the United States in return for agreeing not to test nuclear weapons. ❋ Unknown (2000)

And although it is financed by a grant in aid from the U.K. treasury, the conduct of its affairs is placed in the hands of an executive committee representative of all branches of current thought. ❋ Unknown (1948)

Not only are the terms "donor" and "recipient" anachronistic, but even the word "aid" itself needs to be shelved – all countries benefit from development co-operation, so a word implying charity is misleading. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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