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AID

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Aid

Meaning of Aid

assist , help, supplement the efforts of another.

Synonyms of Aid

(Help), noun

  • abetment
  • accommodation
  • advance
  • advocacy
  • ai dance
  • assistance
  • auspices
  • backing
  • coadjuvancy
  • cooperation
  • countenance
  • endorsement
  • espousal
  • facilitation
  • furtherance
  • guidance
  • helpfulness
  • maintenance
  • ministration
  • ministry
  • patronage
  • promotion
  • reinforcement
  • relief
  • rescue
  • sponsorship
  • subscription
  • subsidy
  • subsistence
  • succor
  • support
  • sustainment
  • sustenance
  • tutelage
  • willing help Associated Concepts: federal aid
  • foreign aid
  • state aid

(Subsistence), noun

  • benefaction
  • benefit
  • charity
  • compensation
  • endowment
  • humanitarianism
  • maintenance
  • ministration
  • ministry
  • patronage
  • relief
  • subsidy
  • support
  • sustainment
  • sustenance

verb

  • 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 AKIN (Germane)
  • adjective
  • affiliated
  • alike
  • allied
  • analogous
  • appertaining
  • applicable
  • apropos
  • associated
  • closely related
  • collateral
  • connected
  • correlative
  • correspondent
  • corresponding
  • interchangeable
  • like
  • linked
  • parallel
  • pertinent
  • related
  • relating
  • relevant
  • resembling
  • similar

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What does Aid mean in American Law?

The definition of Aid in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

Help and support, as in “foreign aid,” “federal aid to education,” etc. It need not be merely financial aid, e.g., “the Aussies aided in the invasion of Sicily.” See also aiding and abetting. And see aids for the feudal “tax.”

What does AID mean in American Law?

The definition of AID in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

The very widely used law abbreviation of Agency for International Development.

See also artificial insemination (for the law abbreviation written A.I.D.).

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Aid

(You may find aid at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

early 15c., “war-time tax,” also “help, support, assistance,” from Old French aide, earlier aiudha “aid, help, assistance” (9c.), from Late Latin adiuta, noun use of femenine of adiutus, past participle of Latin adiuvare “to give help to,” from ad “to” (see ad-) + iuvare “to help, give strength, support, sustain,” which is from a PIE source perhaps related to the root of iuvenis “young person” (see young (adj.)). Meaning “thing by which assistance is given” is recorded from 1590s; meaning “person who assists, helper” is from 1560s. Meaning “material help given by one country to another” is from 1940.

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