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helper
help‧er/ˈhelpə $ -ər/ noun [COUNTABLE] [Word Family: noun: help, helper, helpfulness ≠ unhelpfulness, helping, helplessness; adverb: helpfully ≠ unhelpfully, helplessly; adjective: helpful ≠ unhelpful, helpless; verb: help] 1. someone who helps another person SYN assistant: ▪ I was a classroom helper at the local primary school.
2. American English someone who is employed to do some of the work in someone else’s home
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE voluntary ▪ Sida has 2,000 voluntary helpers working for it. ▪ The project employs a full-time warden and has support from voluntary helpers. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES willing helper/volunteer/partner etc ▪ Any Texas prisoner who finds a willing partner on the outside is allowed to be married. ▪ Find yourself a willing partner and sit facing each other. ▪ For example, a teacher who says that she thinks some of the dolls need bathing will soon have some willing helpers. ▪ I belong to several organisations, some are small and local who need willing helpers and supporters. ▪ Non-horsy spouses and relatives can be trained for this role, but they must be willing helpers! ▪ There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find. ▪ Why should he bother, when he had a willing partner waiting back in his rooms? ▪ You take one pair of ends, your willing helper takes the other, and off you go. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Helpers are needed to run the book stall and man the bar. ▪ Ella works at the hospital once a week as a voluntary helper. ▪ We have three student helpers in the office this semester. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All Lourdes helpers and friends welcome. ▪ In the meantime we had somehow collected another half-dozen helpers. ▪ Non-horsy spouses and relatives can be trained for this role, but they must be willing helpers! ▪ Not student, not child, but helper or assistant. ▪ Senior citizens groups may also provide an untapped fund of skilled helpers. ▪ The majority of these helpers are young males. ▪ They instruct helpers where to point the ramp.
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