0 help: --
A £1 billion investment would be of considerable assistance to the local economy.
The company needs more financial assistance from the government.
1 help, especially money or resources that are given to people, countries, etc. when they have experienced a difficult situation: --
food/humanitarian/disaster assistance
federal/state/government assistance
be of assistance (to sb) (in doing sth) The grant was of great assistance to us in setting up the organization.
offer/provide/receive assistance The first teams sent to provide assistance after the earthquake began arriving in the affected region yesterday.
need/seek assistance The minister revealed that the banking industry needed assistance from the taxpayer to survive.
Thus, there are several options for the receipt of publiclyfinanced home-care assistance.
All the participants used community-based health and social-care services and all needed assistance to attend meetings because they were unable to travel unaided.
The national government offered no assistance on the matter.
They focus for instance on training in conflict handling, the support of peace conferences, or the assistance of local women groups.
There are no documented instances where inflows of foreign aid or humanitarian assistance were affected by a host state's policies towards refugees on its territory.
Convention ; nor are military aid and security assistance included.
Where problems were anticipated, the implementation of existing or potential coping skills was discussed, and assistance was given to participants in rehearsing and implementing these.
A dependency measure has been included as a way of indicating how much objectively-rated need for assistance there was.