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assistive

adj
/əˈsɪstɪv/

Etymology

From assist + -ive.

  1. derived from assistō — “stand at, bestand”
  2. derived from assister — “to assist, to attend”
  3. inherited from assisten
  4. suffixed as assistive — “assist + ive”

Definitions

  1. Providing or designed to provide assistance, especially to persons with a disability

    • “The use of an assistive device should not only be considered in solely biomechanical terms,” the I.P.C. said in a statement.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for assistive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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