aide
nounUK /eɪd/
Etymology Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.
1
An assistant.
- The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:
- Weiner and his aides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism […]2009 January 13, Michael Barbaro, Raymond Hernandez, “Sounding Like a Rival, Weiner Attacks Bloomberg”, in The New York Times:
2
Government, Military, Politics, War An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
- Derived terms
- metro aide, teacher's aide