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
A Sheffield United spokesperson said the club had an external and independent whistleblowing service, a dedicated women's safeguarding officer, a player care officer and access to internal mental health first aiders and wellbeing services.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2024
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
Yet it may have been forgotten that the pardon was, in fact, narrow — it didn’t cover Nixon’s aiders and abettors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2020
As I have already said, the women are not always simply aiders and abettors, but in the actual poaching sometimes play an important part.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
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