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aide
[ eyd ]
noun
- an assistant or helper, especially a paid employee:
Years ago, my mom was a teacher’s aide in a kindergarten classroom.
During the war she worked as an aide in a field hospital, changing bedpans and cleaning floors.
- an assistant or advisor to a public figure, especially one who works for a person in public office:
He is a journalist and former White House aide.
The agency just called to say my mom's aide didn't show up this morning.
aide
/ ɪ /
noun
- an assistant
- social welfare an unqualified assistant to a professional welfare worker
- short for aide-de-camp
Confusables Note
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Instead, they were delivered in the middle of their meeting by a Bukele aide.
The four justices who dissented against Trump are women, so William Wolfe, former aide to Al Mohler, used it as evidence that women cannot be trusted with power.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has named a new deputy mayor for public safety, installing former FBI official Robert Clark as her top aide overseeing police and fire issues.
Since then, he said, he’s worked in the jails, been a chief’s executive aide, served as spokesman under the last administration and currently is watch commander at the Palmdale sheriff’s station.
“I don’t see it yet,” the aide said, granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, “but down the road, it’s possible.”
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