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noun

assistance

CEFR B1

help or support given to someone

In a sentence

Six example sentences with assistance, each labelled with its topic.

  • The nurse called for assistance when the patient could not lift himself from the chair after the long procedure.

    Medicine

  • With two hundred covers booked, the head chef asked the pastry team for assistance plating desserts during the dinner rush.

    Cooking

  • Stranded at the border with a dead battery, we waited two hours before roadside assistance reached our rented van.

    Travel

  • The credit union offers free budgeting assistance to members who fall two payments behind on a loan.

    Finance

  • Defendants who cannot afford a lawyer receive legal assistance from an office that handles four hundred cases a year.

    Law

  • The help desk logged eighty requests for assistance in one morning after the password policy changed overnight.

    Technology

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