aide
- noun
- /eɪd/
- Formal
- Students, parents, administrators, teachers, and aides regularly meet to create individual education plans that may ensure student success.
- teacher aide
- health aide
- volunteer aide
Enter Trump campaign aide and daughter's boyfriend giving you a fist bump.
- Enter Trump campaign aide and daughter's boyfriend giving you a fist bump.
- And his aide, Colin Wilkerson has even gone further than that.
- He tells his aide, you witnessed repellent, childish conduct.
- Later, she served as a special political assistant and chief Berlin aide to the US ambassador to West Germany.
- Indeed, NBC News reports that those close to Miss Harris say her choice came down to trusting her gut, with one aide comparing it to finding a husband.
- Several of her top aides are now full time lobbyists for TikTok, several of them OK.
- Healy Baumgartner was the former campaign aide and private advisor to Trump.
- Well, my teacher and the teacher's aide, the Buffalo Public School will put children in the bathroom and turn off the lights.
- Well, she's a senator from Minnesota who famously once, after an aide forgot to bring her a fork for lunch, ate a salad with a used comb.
- OK up next, am I the asshole for not wanting to invite my mother's home health aide to Thanksgiving?
Examples
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I met a White House aide once at a social occasion.
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He was an aide to three of our presidents.
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Your legal aide should be here within 30 minutes or so.
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Did you know that my ex is going to become a presidential aide?
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Ivanka Trump, senior aide to the president and winner of Take Your Daughter to Work Day.
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Most of the foster children attend public schools and require an aide in the classroom.
Academic text (2008) -
He's an aide to Senator Harrison.
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More specifically, there was a need to train volunteer health aides who would assist students with diabetes-related needs.
Academic text (2012) -
Instead, he directed his aide, Jean Becker, to call the publisher of Doubleday.
Academic text (2011) -
Your legal aide should be here within 30 minutes or so.
Synonyms
A person who helps someone with their work or tasks
A person who serves or helps people in a public place
A person who does tasks for others, for example at events
A person who helps staff or members in an organization
A person who helps someone in a part-time or temporary role
A military officer who helps a senior officer with paperwork and schedules
A military officer who helps a senior officer with personal and official duties
A person who helps someone in need, for example with first aid
A person who helps and acts for someone in charge
A person who helps another with a task or need
A person or thing that helps someone with a task
Compounds
- Formal
A military officer who helps a senior officer with personal and official duties
How Senior
Surface Forms
Etymology
Aide comes from the French word aide, which means 'help' and is the same root as the English word aid. So an aide is simply a 'helper'—someone who assists another person in work, often in an office, public job, or the military.