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Aid Definition

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Etymology 1

From Old French aide, from Latin adiuvō (“to assist, help”). Cognate include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto

Noun

aid (plural aids)

  1. Help assistance; succor, relief.
    • An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. - Hallam
  2. The person who promotes or helps in something being done; a helper; an assistant.
    • It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. - Tobit viii. 6
  3. Something which helps; a material source of help.
    The incompetent general's brilliant aid often made priceless suggestions.
  4. (UK) A historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort
  5. (UK) An exchequer loan.
  6. (law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
  7. An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation
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Translations
help; succor; assistance; relief
a person that promotes or helps in something being done; a helper
something which helps; a material source of help
subsidy granted to the crown by parliament
  • French: aide fr(fr) f.
Exchequer loan
aide-de-camp — see aide-de-camp

Etymology 2

From Old French aidier (modern aider), from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuvo "to assist".

Verb

to aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)

  1. (transitive) To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
    • You speedy helpers... Appear and aid me in this enterprise. - Shakespeare
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to support

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Aid may be given by individuals, private organisations, or governments. Standards delimiting exactly the kinds of transfers that count as aid vary. For example, aid figures may or may not include transfers for military use: to cite one instance, the United States included military assistance in its aid figure until 1957 but no longer does. The most widely used measure of aid, "Official Development Assistance" (ODA) is such a figure. It is compiled by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The United Nations, the World Bank, and many scholars use the DAC's ODA figure as their main aid figure because it is easily available and reasonably consistently calculated over time and between countries. The DAC consists of 22 of the wealthiest Western industrialised countries plus the EU; it is a forum in which they coordinate their aid policies.
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