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aide en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /eɪd/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.

Meanings

1. An assistant.
   • Weiner and his aides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism […] 2009 January 13, Michael Barbaro, Raymond Hernandez, “Sounding Like a Rival, Weiner Attacks Bloomberg”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2021:
   • The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade. 1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:
2. An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

Forms

Deriveds

metro aide · teacher's aide