Usually means: Assist others in need voluntarily.
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  1. help out: Merriam-Webster
  2. help out: Collins English Dictionary
  3. help out: Vocabulary.com
  4. help (sb) out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. help out: Wiktionary
  6. help out: Dictionary.com
  7. help out: Rhymezone
  8. help out: FreeDictionary.org
  9. help out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. help out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. help out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. help out: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (help out)

▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To provide assistance.

Similar:
help, behelp, assist, lend a hand, give someone a hand, pitch in, succour, come to someone's aid, avail, support, more...

Opposite:
hinder, obstruct, impede, hamper, thwart

Types:
assist, aid, more...

Phrases:
to help out, Eat Out to Help Out, Help a Reporter Out, help me out, help out with a heist, more...

Adjectives:
bestead, assisting, helpful, supported, engagé, aidful, duty bound, obligated, contracted, suppliant, second

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Similar:
help, behelp, assist, lend a hand, give someone a hand, pitch in, succour, come to someone's aid, avail, support, more...

Opposite:
hinder, obstruct, impede, hamper, thwart

Types:
assist, aid, more...

Phrases:
to help out, Eat Out to Help Out, Help a Reporter Out, help me out, help out with a heist, help out with, to help out someone in need, help out with a bank job, help out in a bad way, more...

Adjectives:
bestead, assisting, helpful, supported, engagé, aidful, duty bound, obligated, contracted, suppliant, second



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