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assistance

UK/əˈsɪs.təns/

assistance noun: aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

Noun

assistance (usually uncountable, plural assistances)

  1. (usually) Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.
    • He asked for technical assistance with the computer.
    • Financial assistance is available for low-income families.

assistance meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

assistance in Hindi

aid; help; the act or result of assisting
मदद madad, सहायता sahāytā, इमदाद imdād

assistance in Tamil

உதவி, துணைமை

assistance in Marathi

aid; help; the act or result of assisting
सहाय्य sahāyya, मदत madat

assistance in Urdu

aid; help; the act or result of assisting
مَدَد madad, اِمْداد imdād, کُمَک kumak
More languagesFewer languages
assistance in Bengali
সাহায্য śahajjo, মদদ modod
assistance in Telugu
సహాయము sahāyamu
assistance in Malayalam
തുണ
assistance in Kannada
ಸಹಾಯ sahāya
assistance in Gujarati
મદદ madad
assistance in Sanskrit
उपकार upakāra
assistance in Arabic
مُسَاعَدَة musāʕada, إِمْدَاد ʔimdād
assistance in Thai
ความช่วยเหลือ kwaam-chûai-lʉ̌ʉa
assistance in Vietnamese
sự giúp đỡ

Examples of assistance in a sentence

  • She could not have finished the project without his assistance.
  • The program provides legal assistance to immigrants.
  • Ellis (1977) suggested that the oldest and best-selling self-help text was the Bible, a document developed without the assistance of mental health professionals.2015, Gerald M. Rosen, Russell E. Glasgow, Timothy E. Moore, Manuel Barrera Jr., “9. Self-Help Therapy: Recent Developments in the Science...

All 40 example sentences with assistance

Forms of assistance

pluralassistances
alternative form (obsolete)assistaunce

Plural of assistance: assistances

Origin of assistance

From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assistō (“to stand at”). By surface analysis, assist + -ance.

Words formed from assistance

Phrases with assistance

Words that rhyme with assistance

Questions about assistance

What does assistance mean?
Assistance means aid; help; the act or result of assisting.
What is assistance in Hindi?
Assistance in Hindi is मदद (madad), सहायता (sahāytā), इमदाद (imdād). See Assistance meaning in Hindi.
How do you use assistance in a sentence?
She could not have finished the project without his assistance.
What part of speech is assistance?
Assistance is a noun.
How do you pronounce assistance?
Assistance is pronounced /əˈsɪs.təns/ (UK).
What is the plural of assistance?
The plural of assistance is assistances.

Words near assistance in the dictionary

  1. Assisi embroideries
  2. Assisi embroidery
  3. assist
  4. assist.
  5. assistable
  6. assistance
  7. assistance animal
  8. assistance animals
  9. assistance dog
  10. assistance dogs
  11. assistances

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: assistance (page history and authors); assistance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); assistance (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಸಹಾಯ (Kannada) (page history and authors); મદદ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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