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aid 1 vt: to provide with what is useful in achieving an endconspiracy to counsel or aid draft resisters — K. A. Cohen— often used in the phrase aid and abet; see also abetvi: to be of useaided in the commission of the crimeaid·er naid 2 n1: an act of aidingrender aid to the principal2: help given; esp: tangible means of assistance (as money or supplies)aid to the disabledgiving aid and comfort to the enemy
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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(help) noun
abetment, accommodation, advance, advocacy, aidance, assistance, auspices, backing, benefit, coadjuvancy, cooperation, countenance, endorsement, espousal, facilitation, furtherance, guidance, help, helpfulness, maintenance, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, service, sponsorship, subscription, subsidy, subsistence, succor, support, sustainment, sustenance, tutelage, willing help
associated concepts: aid and abet, aid and comfort
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(subsistence) noun
benefaction, benefit, charity, compensation, endowment, humanitarianism, maintenance, ministration, ministry, patronage, relief, subsidy, support, sustainment, sustenance
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abet, advance, assist, augment, avail, be auxiliary to, be of service, benefit, collaborate, cooperate with, facilitate, further, give aid, give support, help, minister to, nurture, oblige, promote, provision, reinforce, relieve, render help, rescue, second, serve, service, strengthen, subserve, succor, supplement, support, sustain, uphold
associated concepts: aid and abet, aid and comfort
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abet, accommodate, accomplice, advantage, advocacy, assist, assistance, associate, avail (be of use), bear (support), behalf, benefactor, benefit (conferment), bolster, capitalize (provide capital), charity, coactor, coadjutant, conduce, confederate, conspire, conspirer, contribute (assist), contribution (participation), copartner (coconspirator), countenance, enable, endow, endowment, espouse, expedite, facilitate, factor (ingredient), favor (sanction), favor, finance, foment, foster, harbor, help (noun), help (verb), instrument (tool), inure (benefit), largess (generosity), lend, loan, maintain (sustain), maintenance (support of spouse), nurture, participant, participate, partner, patronage (support), promotion (encouragement), redress, reinforcement, relieve (give aid), remedy (legal means of redress), remedy (that which corrects), remedy, rescue, Samaritan, serve (assist), service (assistance), shelter (protection), side, subsidize, support (assistance), support (assist), uphold
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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Artificial insemination using a third-party donor's sperm; Agency for International Development
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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