mutual aid

1. 1.

   arrangements made between nations to assist each other

   Synonymsinternational logistic support

   Broaderlogistic support

Questions about mutual aid

What does mutual aid mean?

mutual aid means "arrangements made between nations to assist each other".

What is another word for mutual aid?

Close synonyms include international logistic support. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mutual aid a common word?

mutual aid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.