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aid
noun as in help, support
Strongest matches
assistance, benefit, care, compensation, cooperation, gift, relief, service, subsidy, treatment
Strong matches
advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benevolence, bounty, charity, comfort, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, rescue, reward, salvation, sustenance
Weak matches
verb as in help, support
Weak matches
bail out, go to bat for, go with, lend a hand, open doors for, stick up for, straighten out
Example Sentences
Aid has sharply declined because the single largest donor, the US, stopped nearly all aid to Afghanistan earlier this year.
"Those who are facing malnutrition, those who are facing hunger, it's because of sanctions, because of aid cuts by international organisations. It's not because of the government," the head of the Taliban's political office in Doha, Suhail Shaheen, told the BBC.
We call again on the Israeli government to lift the unacceptable restrictions of the border, stop these cruel tactics, and let the aid surge in.
But still, nowhere near enough aid is getting through.
There was a radical traveling nurse who had brought home-brewed kombucha, a college-age activist who didn’t want to be photographed for op-sec reasons, and three white Baby Boomers from local refugee and immigrant aid groups.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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