Synonyms for assistance
əˈsɪs tənsas·sis·tance

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1. assistance

   Synonyms:
   advantage, aid, benefit, help, relief, succor

   Antonyms:
   bar, barrier, clog, difficulty, encumbrance, hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction

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1. assistance

   Synonyms:
   help, aid, countenance, support, abettance, protection, maintenance, coadjutorship

   Antonyms:
   resistance, obstruction, opposition, counteraction, antagonism, drawback, clog, preventive

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1. aid, assist, assistance, helpnoun

   the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

   "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading"

   Synonyms:
   help, service, supporter, attention, financial aid, care, assist, helper, economic aid, avail, assistant, tending, aid

2. aid, assistance, helpnoun

   a resource

   "visual aids in teaching"

   Synonyms:
   help, service, supporter, attention, financial aid, care, assist, helper, economic aid, avail, assistant, tending, aid

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1. assistancenoun

   Synonyms:
   help, aid, succor, LIFT, support, patronage, relief, helping hand, good offices

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1. assistancenoun

   Synonyms:
   aid, succor, relief, coöperation, reinforcement, collaboration, subservience

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1. List of paraphrases for "assistance":

   aid, help, support, assist, attendance, assisting, helping, assisted, care, assists, relief, asistencia, assistive, helps, 'assistance, welfare, aids, 'aide, pomoc, pomocy, competitions, aiding, competition

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1. Denise Chase:

   They said, ‘Oh don’t worry. When you have wheelchair assistance they stay with them and get them to the gate at the right time and that never happened, they must’ve just left her at the gate.

2. Mike Hichme:

   We have a lot of new driver assistance features coming that are more tightly coupled with navigation, we don’t want to design these features in a way that are dependent on a person having a cellphone.

3. John Reid:

   Australia's strong border protection measures have played a key role in enabling the government to maintain meaningful and significant humanitarian resettlement and assistance programmes.

4. Dianne Feinstein:

   They have to move through together at some point and be signed together. There can't be a TPA without the assistance part of it. I know the President knows that and I'm hopeful that he's able to work out an agreement to see that that happens, trust is the key. Trust rules the day. Lack of trust destroys it.

5. Bryan Steil:

   Recent reports of furloughs and layoffs at the Kennedy Center only made matters worse, Senate Republicans said. Families and workers are struggling to pay rent, pay their mortgageand buy groceries, americans need relief and assistance now, which is why I supported the CARES Act. However, some in Washington felt it was important to spend $ 25 million of taxpayer dollars on the Kennedy Center when there are obviously bigger needs right now. This is frivolous spending in the midst of a national emergency.