Dictionary entry
Aiding and abetting
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(idm) အားပေးကူညီခြင်း။
Definition
aid /eÇd/ n ၁။ အကူအညီ။ legal aid ❍ breathe with the aid of a respirator ❍ This level of analysis would be impossible without the aid of a computer. ❍ She came quickly to his aid. ၂။ အေထာက္အကူ။ teaching aids ❍ a useful aid to giving up smoking. ၃။ အေထာက္အပံ့။ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈ။ အကူအညီ။ How much foreign aid does America give? ❍ emergency/food/humanitarian aid ❍ medical aid programmes. v ( esp fml ) ကူညီသည္။ အေထာက္အကူျပဳသည္။ They were accused of aiding his escape/aiding him in his escape. ❍ The pound, aided by support from the Bank of England, recovered a little today. ❍ His absence aided the rebels to gain control of the city. ❏ aiding and abetting အားေပးကူညီျခင္း။ be accused of aiding and abetting a crime. ❏ in aid of sth/sb [ IDM ] အေထာက္အကူျပဳရန္အတြက္။ collect money in aid of charity. ❏ what's (all) this, etc in aid of? [ IDM ] ( infml ) မည္သည့္အတြက္ေၾကာင့္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္။ Now then, what's all this crying in aid of?
Examples
- [economic/medical aid] : The UN provided emergency economic aid to the refugees.
- [foreign/overseas/international aid] : She said the government should spend more on overseas aid.
- Financial aid for small businesses
- [enlist/seek the aid of someone] : The police tried to enlist the aid of the public in solving the crime.
- [come/go/hurry/rush to someone’s aid] : Several people heard her screams
- but no one went to her aid.
- [with the aid of something] : Chromosomes can be seen with the aid of a microscope.
- The pupils created the wall painting with the aid of a local artist.
- [aid to] : Hypnosis can be an aid to giving up smoking.
- [teaching/memory/navigation aid] : Songs can be very useful as memory aids.