jut-, juv- +

(Latin: help, give assistance)


adjutancy
1. Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance.
2. The office of an adjutant: "His position as an adjutancy allows him certain privileges which probably would not exist otherwise."
adjutant
1. A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.
2. A military officer who does office work and who is responsible for rules and punishment among the lower ranks.
adjutor
A helper or assistant.
adjutory
Serving to help or assist; helping.
adjutrix
A female helper or assistant.
adjuvant
1. A drug or agent added to another drug or agent to enhance its medical effectiveness.
2. A substance injected along with an antigen to enhance the immune response stimulated by the antigen.
3. Something that helps or assists.
adjuvante deo
With the favor of God or with His help.
aid (AYD)
1. Help, assist, abet, lend assistance, give a helping hand; support, give support to: "There are not enough organizations that give aid to the poor."
2. Foster, further, promote, advance; facilitate, make easy, serve: "A good dictionary is an essential aid in the improvement of the English language."
aide (AYD)
An assistant or an aide-de-camp: "An officer in a military organization who serves as an assistant and confidential secretary to a superior officer."
aider
1. Someone who helps.
2. An assistant, or auxiliary.
3. Someone who provides with what is useful or necessary in achieving an end.
aiding and abetting; aid and abet

To help, to assist, or to facilitate the commission of a crime and to promote the accomplishment thereof; and to help in advancing or bringing it about, or to encourage, to counsel, or to incite as to its commission.

Legally, it includes all assistance rendered by words, acts, encouragement, support, or presence, actual or constructive, and to render assistance, if necessary.

—From Black's Law Dictionary by Henry Campbell Black, 6th edition,
West Publishing Co; St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990.
coadjutant
1. A helper or assistant.
2. Mutually assisting or helping.
coadjuting
Mutually assisting.
coadjutor
1. A helper.
2. A bishop who assists a diocesan bishop.
coadjutorship, co-adjutorship
The state of a coadjutor; joint assistance.

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