Usually means: Helping someone achieve a task.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word assist:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. assist: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. assist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. assist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. assist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. assist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Assist, assist: Wordnik
  7. assist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. assist: Wiktionary
  9. assist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. assist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. assist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. assist: Dictionary.com
  13. assist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. assist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ASSIST (student exchange organization), Assist (Scientology), Assist (association football), Assist (baseball), Assist (basketball), Assist (football), Assist (hockey), Assist (ice hockey), Assist (soccer), Assist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Assist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. assist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. assist: Rhymezone
  19. assist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. assist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. assist: Free Dictionary
  22. assist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. assist: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. assist: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assist: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ASSIST: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. assist: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. assist: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ASSist: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Assist: Sports Definitions

(Note: See assisted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To help.
verb:  (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
verb:  (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
verb:  (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
verb:  (now archaic) To be present (at an event, occasion etc.).
noun:  A helpful action or an act of giving.
noun:  (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals
noun:  (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
noun:  (baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.

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