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Noun helper has 2 senses
assistant, helper, help, supporter - a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"--1 is a kind of worker
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 |  | coadjutor; accomplice, confederate; aide, auxiliary; attendant, attender, tender; dental assistant; deputy, lieutenant; dresser, actor's assistant; event planner; facilitator; girl Friday; hatchet man, enforcer; instrument, pawn, cat's-paw; labor coach, monitrice; underboss; mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model, model; model, poser; paraprofessional; powder monkey; prompter, theater prompter; right-hand man, chief assistant, man Friday; secretary, secretarial assistant; sidesman; subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier; water boy, waterer; whipper-in | 
benefactor, helper - a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)--2 is a kind of good person
 --2 has particulars:
 |  | benefactress; bondsman, bondswoman; donor, giver, presenter; donor; fairy godmother; good Samaritan, Samaritan; humanitarian, do-gooder, improver; liberator; obliger, accommodator; offerer, offeror; patron, sponsor, supporter; provider; savior, saviour, rescuer, deliverer; sparer; uncle | 
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