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AID
1[ eyd ]
noun
- the division of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency that coordinates the various foreign aid programs with U.S. foreign policy: established in 1961.
AID
2abbreviation for
- American Institute of Decorators.
- American Institute of Interior Designers.
- British. artificial insemination donor. Also A.I.D.
aid
3[ eyd ]
verb (used with object)
- to provide support for or relief to; help:
to aid the victims of the fire.
- to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.
Synonyms: , , ,
Antonyms: ,
verb (used without object)
- to give help or assistance.
noun
- help or support; assistance.
Synonyms: , , ,
- aids, Ѳè.
- Also called natural aids. the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight.
- Also called artificial aids. the devices used by a rider to increase control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
- a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.
- English History. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions.
aid
1/ ɪ /
verb
- to give support to (someone to do something); help or assist
- tr to assist financially
noun
- assistance; help; support
- a person, device, etc, that helps or assists
a teaching aid
- Alsoartificial aid mountaineering any of various devices such as piton or nut when used as a direct help in the ascent
- (in medieval Europe; in England after 1066) a feudal payment made to the king or any lord by his vassals, usually on certain occasions such as the marriage of a daughter or the knighting of an eldest son
- in aid of informal.in support of; for the purpose of
AID
2abbreviation for
- acute infectious disease
- artificial insemination (by) donor: former name for Donor Insemination (DI)
Aid
3combining form
- denoting a charitable organization or function that raises money for a cause
Band Aid
Ferryaid
Confusables Note
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
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- ·ڳܱ adjective
- · adjective
- ܲ·· adjective
- ܲ···ly adverb
- ܲ··Բ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
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Origin of AID2
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Example Sentences
When an aid team found the bodies they also discovered Refat Radwan's mobile phone containing footage of the incident.
That prompted Mr Reynolds to appeal to US President Donald Trump directly to aid in Peter and Barbie's release, in a video taken outside the White House earlier this week.
Constructive critiques of major disasters like Vietnam and Iraq they will excoriate as “aid and comfort to the enemy.”
The aid that Goebbels and other Nazi leaders needed soon arrived, along with 20 or so bankers and industrialists who arrived in chauffeured cars at the official residence of Reichstag president Hermann Göring on the night of Feb. 20.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dismissed accusations that Washington was left unable to help in the Myanmar earthquake due to the Donald Trump administration's shuttering of its humanitarian aid agency.
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