co-assist

A form of coassist — To jointly assist or to provide an additional source of assistance.

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Meanings

verbco-assist (third-person singular simple present co-assists, present participle co-assisting, simple past and past participle co-assisted)

present singular third person co-assists · participle present co-assisting · participle past co-assisted · past co-assisted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of coassist.
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    In the more recent past, maids, family members, particularly grandparents and other non-working female relations and kin (sisters, mothers, aunts, co-wives and sometimes daughters) have co-assisted their grown-up children by continuing to play a key role in providing childcare supoprt to the children both in the developing world and industrialised countries.

    2013, Diane Chilangwa Farmer, Black Women in Management: Paid Work and Family Formations, →ISBN
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APA

co-assist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/co-assist

MLA

“co-assist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/co-assist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “co-assist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/co-assist.

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