helper

noun

ˈhel-pər How to pronounce helper (audio)
Definition of helpernext
as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person to make money over the summer, Chris worked as a carpenter's helper

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Recent Examples of helper There was a helper that used to come, a home health aide. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025 The complaint alleges that Mr. Baldoni didn’t follow through on that promise, but did make the adjustment to hire a crisis management team, digital manipulation experts, litigators, and used those helpers to plan and execute the smear campaign described in her original lawsuit. — Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2025 The long tradition of American philanthropy, America’s leadership and legacy in humanitarian aid, our collective identity as a nation of helpers is anchored in this sense of responsibility. — Michael J. Nyenhuis, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 As big tech developers race to roll out the next generation of artificial intelligence, some people are already enlisting an army of AI helpers to check off their daily to-do lists. — Angela Yang, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for helper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helper
  1. assistant
  2. aide
  3. aid
  4. apprentice
  5. adjutant
  6. deputy
  7. sidekick
Noun
  • Trainer led Trump's battleground states strategy in 2020 and joined the first administration as special assistant to the president and director of regional political operations.
    — Axios, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The 10 individuals initially arrested in September 2017, which included four college assistant coaches, were all relative bit players in the ecosystem.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of assistant
Noun
  • Netanyahu’s effort to remove Ronen Bar as director of the Shin Bet follows an increasingly acrimonious dispute that also involves the security service’s investigation into close aides of the prime minister.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The strikes Saturday are the result of several high-level White House meetings this week with Trump and top national security aides, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Michael E. Kurilla.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of aide
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Israel's blockade of aid on Gaza — including electricity — is entering its third week.
    — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 15 Mar. 2025
  • As the senior career civil servant overseeing defense, intelligence, and veterans’ programs at the Office of Management and Budget during the first Trump Administration, I was asked to sign off on a hold on military aid to Ukraine, similar to that recently imposed by Trump.
    — Mark Sandy, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of aid
Noun
  • After college, Heil auditioned and was accepted into a two-year apprentice program at Ballet Austin in Texas, but when the program ended, he wasn’t hired.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The Tallahassee Ballet, a 50-year-old institution with a professional and youth apprentice program, offers a mix of classic and contemporary ballets during the year.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of apprentice
Noun
  • At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.
    — Kyla Mandel, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
  • In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024
Definition of adjutant
Noun
  • Also in the power hallway is Beau Harrison, deputy chief of staff for operations.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • During that period, his brother was hired into what appears to have been his first federal job—deputy director of the Office of Secretarial Boards and Councils at the Department of Energy.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of deputy
Noun
  • That puts Stuart at the center of the offshoot but also hints that the beloved sidekick, who could never quite catch a break on Big Bang, might not have better luck on his own.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
  • He's got a little sidekick over there named Mark Paoletta who is one of the people in the portrait with Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo and Clarence Thomas.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of sidekick

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