helper

1. A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose (synset 109835195)
   "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"
   is a type of: worker - a person who works at a specific occupation
   subtypes:

   • coadjutor - an assistant to a bishop
   • accomplice, confederate - a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
   • aide, auxiliary - someone who acts as assistant
   • attendant, attender, tender - someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
   • bat boy - (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment
   • dental assistant - an assistant to a dentist
   • deputy, lieutenant - an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent
   • actor's assistant, dresser - a wardrobe assistant for an actor
   • event planner - someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials)
   • facilitator - someone who makes progress easier
   • flower girl - a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession
   • girl friday - a female assistant who has a range of duties
   • enforcer, hatchet man - one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
   • cat's-paw, instrument, pawn - a person used by another to gain an end
   • birthing coach, doula, labor coach, monitrice - an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes
   • underboss - an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate)
   • fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model - a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
   • model, poser - a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
   • paraprofessional - a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional
   • powder monkey - someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)
   • prompter, theater prompter - someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech
   • chief assistant, man friday, right-hand man - the most helpful assistant
   • secretarial assistant, secretary - an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization
   • sidesman - (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church
   • foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary, underling - an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
   • water boy, waterer - an assistant who supplies drinking water
   • whipper-in - huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds
   same as: assistant, help, supporter
2. A person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) (synset 109631739)
   is a type of: good person - a person who is good to other people
   subtypes:

   • benefactress - a woman benefactor
   • bondsman, bondswoman - someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else
   • bestower, conferrer, donor, giver, presenter - person who makes a gift of property
   • donor - (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
   • fairy godmother - a generous benefactor
   • good samaritan - a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble
   • do-gooder, humanitarian, improver - someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
   • liberator - someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
   • accommodator, obliger - someone who performs a service or does a favor
   • offerer, offeror - someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection
   • patron, sponsor, supporter - someone who supports or champions something
   • provider - someone who provides the means for subsistence
   • deliverer, rescuer, savior, saviour - a person who rescues you from harm or danger
   • sparer - someone who refrains from injuring or destroying
   • uncle - a source of help and advice and encouragement
   same as: benefactor

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