assistances
USuh-SIS-tuhn-siz/əˈsɪs.tən.sɪz/UKuh-SIS-tuhns-iz/əˈsɪs.təns.ɪz/
- 1Plural of assistance. Rare, since assistance is normally uncountable.
Note
A plural that ordinary English rarely needs, because assistance is usually uncountable: you give someone assistance, not an assistance. The plural appears when separate kinds or instances of aid are counted one by one, mostly in bureaucratic and legal writing. Elsewhere, forms of assistance or types of aid usually reads more naturally, and a learner is safer choosing one of those.
assistances is a form of assistance
assistance, noun: Help or support given to someone, or the act and result of helping them. Full entry
- Forms
- assistanceassistances plural
- Spelling
- assistance → assistances: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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