The meaning of AID is to provide with what is useful or necessary in achieving an end. How to use aid in a sentence.

Aid is often used to refer to help given in the form of food, money, medical supplies, etc., to a country or group of people that is in need or because of an emergency:

Definition of aid noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [uncountable] money, food, etc. that is sent to help countries in difficult situations. An extra £10 million in foreign aid has been …

To provide assistance, support, or relief: aided in the effort to improve services to the elderly. n. 1. The act or result of helping; assistance: gave aid to the enemy. 2. a. Something that provides help, …

Aid is what you do when you help someone — you come to their aid. Rich countries provide economic aid to poor countries, and if you cut your hand, you'll be looking in the first aid kit for a Band-Aid.

Although the nouns aid and aide both have among their meanings "an assisting person,'' the spelling aide is increasingly used for the sense "helper, assistant'': One of the senator's aides is calling.

AID definition: the division of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency that coordinates the various foreign aid programs with U.S. foreign policy: established in 1961.

The informal British expression What's (all) this/that in aid of? is used to ask about the purpose of something. “ What's all this rushing about in aid of, then?” [=what's all this rushing about for?] “We're …

If you perform a task with the aid of something, you need or use that thing to perform that task. He succeeded with the aid of a completely new method he discovered.

• Several people came to the man's aid after he collapsed on the sidewalk. • This is where that marvellous rag-bag of feeling we relieve through our tears comes to our aid. • Now, at last, Alfonso …