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- [uh-sis-tuh ns]
- /əˈsɪs təns/
- /əˈsɪstəns/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [uh-sis-tuh ns]
- /əˈsɪs təns/
Definitions of assistance word
- uncountable noun assistance If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them. 3
- uncountable noun assistance If you give someone assistance, you give them information or advice. 3
- uncountable noun assistance If someone gives a person or country assistance, they help them by giving them money. 3
- uncountable noun assistance If something is done with the assistance of a particular thing, that thing is helpful or necessary for doing it. 3
- noun assistance help; support 3
- noun assistance the act of assisting 3
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Origin of assistance
First appearance:
before 1375 One of the 22% oldest English words
1375-1425; late Middle English assistence < Medieval Latin assistentia. See assist, -ence, -ance
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Parts of speech for Assistance
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
assistance popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for assistance
noun assistance
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- service — Robert W(illiam) 1874–1958, Canadian writer, born in England.
- backing — If someone has the backing of an organization or an important person, they receive support or money from that organization or person in order to do something.
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.
Antonyms for assistance
noun assistance
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
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