assistance
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
assistance/əˈsɪstəns/
▶noun the provision of money, resources, or information to help someone.
■ the action of helping.
'assistance' also found in these Oxford entries:
alone
- caddie
- charitable
- contact
- cooperative
- deserving
- directory enquiries
- grant aid
- help
- hit
- inside job
- leave
- lurch
- means test
- Medicaid
- ministration
- National Assistance
- National Insurance
- outplacement
- out relief
- poor relief
- prop
- public defender
- relief
- self-sustaining
- service
- servitor
- social assistance
- social insurance
- social security
- steam
- subsidy
- succour
- support
- tide
- top rope
- unaided
- unsupported
