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aide
[ eyd ]
noun
- an assistant or helper, especially a paid employee:
Years ago, my mom was a teacher’s aide in a kindergarten classroom.
During the war she worked as an aide in a field hospital, changing bedpans and cleaning floors.
- an assistant or advisor to a public figure, especially one who works for a person in public office:
He is a journalist and former White House aide.
The agency just called to say my mom's aide didn't show up this morning.
aide
/ eɪd /
noun
- an assistant
- social welfare an unqualified assistant to a professional welfare worker
- short for aide-de-camp
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“Poor Steve Scalise is getting a bad rap,” Knight, a long-time aide to former KKK leader David Duke, told The Daily Beast.
As part of the MassEquality coalition, Marc Solomon, a former Senate aide, was working to get Bay State legislators to vote no.
Then she cajoled an aide, standing next to her, to provide particulars.
Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, a longtime disability advocate, has made HCBS a priority, a Harkin aide told The Daily Beast.
On Monday, there were only two issues "that should be resolved tonight," the aide said.
Meanwhile, he had been selected as aide-de-camp by General d'Ure de Molans.
The Marshal never forgave the aide-de-camp who had thus urged him to spend his money.
His excellency took one end of the table, and an aide-de-camp the other: I was seated between M. and Madame do Rego.
As he did so a dozen Boers dashed out of the kopje, and Aide opened fire on them, which caused the Boers to fire a volley at him.
The aide-de-camp of Calvin and Theodore de Beze contrasted admirably with the son of the furrier.
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