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. Associated Press:

   It moreover attempts to propagate the well-established lie that cross-line assistance is improving despite multiple reports from the Secretary-General stating the opposite, and it removes any mention of the Security Council-supported political process.

2. Gregoire Goodstein:

   These are the people who are the most vulnerable, who have few solutions ... (these) are the people who are most in need of humanitarian assistance.

3. Jane Pearce:

   I feel confident that the organization will do its best to make sure that the people get the assistance that they need.

4. William Taylor:

   I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.

5. John Reid:

   Irregular migration flows pose particular challenges to a managed and equitable system of migration, 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.