Offsider vs Ally - What's the difference?
offsider | ally | Synonyms |
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A partner, assistant, or deputy.
* 1987 , Jill Bowen, Kidman: The Forgotten King , 2010,
* 2006 , Michael Roberts, 50 Years of Television in Australia ,
* 2007 , , Court in the Middle , 2010,
To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy
* (rfdate) :
To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
* (rfdate) :
* (rfdate) :
One united to another by treaty or league; — usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
* (rfdate) :
Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
* (rfdate) Buckle:
Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.
(taxonomy) A closely related species, usually within the same family.
(obsolete) A relative; a kinsman.
(a glass marble or taw)
Offsider is a synonym of ally.
As a noun offsider
is (australia|new zealand|informal) a partner, assistant, or deputy.As a proper noun ally is
a diminutive of the female given names alison, alice and alexandra.offsider
English
Noun
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- Kidman, riding hell for leather and carrying a heavy stockwhip, caught up with him soon after, or rather with his offsider , who was tailing the mob, and demanded an explanation for their trespassing.
- “Don?t ask me,” said the offsider . “You see the boss.”
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- With the 2005 incarnation of Temptation , Livinia Nixon has completed the trifecta of TV seconds: variety offsider , game show hostess and weather girl.
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- Tom also brought an offsider . I will never forget the look on the faces of the airline staff when Big Tony hauled his shooter out and slammed it on the counter. Tom and his sidekick did the same. I couldn?t believe these blokes were armed and how cool everyone was about it.
ally
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) alien, (etyl) alier (Modern French allier), from (etyl) . Compare alligate, allay, alloy and ligament.Verb
(en-verb)- O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied .
- These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied .
- The virtue nearest to our vice allied .
Usage notes
* Generally used in the passive form or reflexively. * Often followed by to'' or ''with .Synonyms
* make common causeNoun
(allies)- the English soldiers and their French allies
- Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.
- Gruiformes — cranes and allies
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