aider
Americannoun
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aiders
plural
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a person or thing that offers aid or assistance.
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a small rope ladder used to assist climbers in ascending a rope.
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With the team's primary medic also injured by rockfall, Kirsty, a back-up first aider with just a one week-long course under her belt, was called into action.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
“The aider and abettor is legally responsible for the acts of other persons that are the natural and probable consequences of the crime in which he intentionally participated.”
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2019
The report says Rodchenkov is “an aider and abettor of the doping activities” and “at the heart of the positive drug test cover-up.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2015
Also, the report said Moscow lab director Grigory Rodchenkov is "an aider and abettor of the doping activities."
From US News ● Nov. 9, 2015
He looks half a corpse too, years aider than when I left Dragonstone.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
In the event of a cardiac arrest, rapid intervention is essential: If first aiders carry out resuscitation measures in good time, the patient's circulation can be restarted in the best-case scenario.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Most bills around the country focus on providers or so-called aiders and abettors.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
“Where are the lawsuits against him and his enablers? I wish the bankruptcy trustees would focus on the actual aiders and abettors of Tom Girardi and Girardi Keese, and stop pummeling his ex-wife,” Borges added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
Only one paramedic was at the bomb scene for the first 45 minutes and many victims were helped by police officers, first aiders and members of the public.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021
Thirty carts full of prisoners were despatched to Norwich; twenty-four of the chief townsmen, thirty-two of the village priests, were convicted as aiders and abettors.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene
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