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n. The act of assisting.

n. Aid; help: financial assistance.

n. Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

n. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.

n. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers.

n. Persons present.

n. A being present; presence; attendance.

n. The persons present; spectators; audience.

n. Help; aid; furtherance; succor; a contribution in aid, by bodily strength or other means.

n. An assistant or helper; assistants collectively.

n. Hence, specifically In English common law and American colonial law, a general name for a somewhat undefined body of subordinate parish or town officers or auxiliaries, apparently including, as sometimes used, the ex-officers, in their customary function of advisers.

n. In American history, a writ issued by a superior colonial court, on alleged precedents of the English Court of Exchequer, authorizing any officers of the crown, in the process of executing the acts of trade, to summon assistance and enter and search any premises. The attempt to use such writs in Massachusetts, defeated in 1761, was one of the abuses which led. to the revolution. Synonyms Aid, support, backing, relief.

n. a resource

n. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

" Financial assistance - offshore companies are usually not prohibited from providing \ "financial assistance\" for the acquisition of their own shares, which avoids the needs for \ "whitewash\" procedure in certain financial transactions."

resource   

divine assistance    court of assistance    writ of assistance   

help    aid    furtherance    succor    support    contribution   

coexistence    consistence    distance    existence    insistence    outdistance    persistence    resistance    resistence    subsistence   

aid    support    advice    protection    attention    guidance    resource    benefit    intervention    employment