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Definition of Assist
Assist

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

To lend aid; to help.

To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.

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Assist Quotations

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Mother Teresa

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
Margaret Thatcher

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer

Assist Translations

assist in Afrikaans is help
assist in Dutch is helpen, assisteren, bijstaan
assist in Finnish is auttaa
assist in French is assister, assistez, aider, alimenter, assistent
assist in Italian is promuovere, aiutare
assist in Latin is ministro, proficio, adiuvo, succurro, adservio
assist in Norwegian is hjelpe
assist in Spanish is asistir, promover, ayudar

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