ayudante†, coaid†; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand;
midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor,
coadjutrix†; collaborator.
ally; friend &c 890, confidant, fidus Achates [Lat.], pal, buddy,
alter ego.
[criminal law] confederate; accomplice; complice; accessory,
accessory after the fact; particeps criminis [Lat.]; socius criminis
[Lat.].
aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand,
right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-
holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant &c 746; puppet, cat's-paw,
jackal†.
tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee [Fr.]; satellite, adherent.
votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor,
advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel
(theater, entertainment).
friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina [Lat.], guardian
angel, tutelary genius.