THESAURUS
assistance
advantage, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, alterative, analeptic, annuity, appropriation, assist, avail, backing, balm, balsam, benefit, bounty, comfort, corrective, cure, depletion allowance, dole, ease, fellowship, financial
assistance, good offices, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, hand, healing agent, healing quality, help, lift, ministration, ministry, office, offices, old-age insurance, pecuniary aid, pension, prescription, price support, profit, protection, public
assistance, public welfare, receipt, recipe, reinforcement, relief, remedial measure, remedy, rescue, restorative, retirement benefits, scholarship, service, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, succor, support, supporting, tax benefit, therapy, upholding, use, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments
ROGET THESAURUS
assistance
Aid
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aid, aidance,
assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.