mutual aid
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mutual aid
First recorded in 1530–40
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The Police Service of Northern Ireland says it has activated "mutual aid arrangements to support contingency planning for a policing operation" in Portadown on Sunday.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Dandia experienced this as a 19-year-old college student, when a young Bangladeshi man joined a mutual aid charity he had started.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The whistles and the mutual aid networks demonstrated that it did not.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Separate from the aid tent, protests at the facility persist, with a grassroots group of activists maintaining a mutual aid table of their own near the detention center.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
He had made a pact of mutual aid with two French kings, called Ban and Bon—and these two allies had come from France with about ten thousand men, to lend him aid.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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