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# assistance

«assistance» in Mova's school dictionary: **help or support given to someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (assistance — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Assistance is help or support given to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#m1)

2) Assistance is often a formal word for help from a service, like medical assistance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety it is used on signs and in announcements: «Do you need assistance?», «call for assistance», «roadside assistance». In school, pupils who need extra help get assistance from a teaching assistant. In stories, a hero comes to someone's assistance.

### examples

- Can I be of any assistance? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#x1)
- Call the lifeguard for assistance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#x2)
- The lady needed assistance with her heavy bags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#x3)
- A teaching assistant gives us assistance with reading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#x4)
- The firefighters came to our assistance quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#x5)
- Press this button if you need assistance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#x6)
- Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «some assistance», not «an assistance» or «assistances». It is more formal than «help». The person who helps is an assistant (spelled -ant); the help itself is assistance (spelled -ance). Verb: assist.

### In the corpora

- ["Receiving public assistance" (official US) means living on welfare: money the government gives to people who need help.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/15/)
- [A guide dog or assistance dog in a harness is working, so you do not stroke, call or feed it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assistance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.