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assistance (uh SIS tuhns) (noun)
1. Support; cooperation: The pilot needed the copilot’s assistance in landing the plane.
2. Financial support: Public assistance is needed to build the orphanage.
assistants (uh SIS tuhnts) (noun)
Those who help someone, or who support a number of higher ranking people, to complete work assignments: The new assistants in the office are very hard workers.

Yvette asked the mover, Kirk and his assistants, for their assistance in carrying her heavy boxes up the stairs.

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assistant (uh SIS tuhnt) (pl) (noun), assistants (pl)
One who helps, aides, or supports: The boss’s new assistants are really hard workers.

The doctors’ assistants at the hospital always seem to be available to succour whenever anyone calls.

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