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aide (ād)

noun

  1. an assistant
  2. an aide-de-camp

Etymology: Fr: see aid

aide Usage Examples

Possessives

  • nurse: The first shift after I arrived, my nurse's aide was Antonio.
  • teacher: Others will need someone, such as a teachers ' aide, to assist them.

Converse of object

  • trust: Only a handful of trusted aides within Downing Street were told: none within the Department of Health.
  • become: He then became an aide to army chief of staff Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1933.
  • provide: Or can visual images provide a genuine aide to understanding science and mathematics?

Adjective modifier

  • congressional: Patrick has been seeing a young woman who works as a Congressional aide.
  • presidential: Any such changes could be catastrophic for world enmity, a presidential aide told us.
  • navigational: Also there are 4 navigational aides on the 4 corners of the news box.
  • ministerial: Two middle-ranking ministers, John Denham and Lord Hunt, quit while five unpaid ministerial aides also stood down.
  • senior: However, a senior aide later expressed concern over the matter.
  • former: Early in 1933, Gareth Jones, a reporter and former aide to Lloyd George, traveled to Ukraine.

Modifies a noun

  • memoire: Five hundred copies of Raising the Game were printed together with a pocket sized aide memoire.
  • memoires: When you've studied English literature from a critical perspective you need aides memoires like that to keep the " rules " at bay.
  • memoir: Pensions A day tax guidance New An aide memoir to the new pension tax regime from 2006.

Noun used with modifier

  • lab: I was the lab aide that cleaned up the lab, put away the dishes.
  • nursing: She has worked as a certified nursing aide for 20 years and is now working as a rehab aide.
  • teacher: She certainly doesn't have a teacher aide at home!
  • nurse: In addition, the project funded a program in which senior nurses from Rangoon trained fifteen local students to act as nurses aides.
  • press: There are two press aides from Vapor's British parent label, Sanctuary, and me.
  • teaching: We strive to create a caring and stimulating learning environment and use the latest teaching aides and innovative approaches to learning.

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