The word "aide" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who helps and assists someone else, especially someone with a prominent public role, such as a politician or celebrity. For example, "The Prime Minister's aide kept a watchful eye over the preparations for the speech."
The decision of the whips to impose a three line whip means that David Burrowes, aide to Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin and a leading member of the no camp, is expected to abstain in the "programme motion" vote.
By this time, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had risen steadily through the group to become a trusted aide to its leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, and his deputy, the Egyptian jihadist Abu Ayub al-Masri.
Amos met the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moualem, on Wednesday and an aide said he told her she would be able to go anywhere in Syria she wished to.
Nicolle Wallace, the former aide to George W Bush who struggled to control Palin while charged with overseeing her for the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain in 2008, said the speech had given the public a true picture of the former governor.
A Clegg aide told Wilson: "The thing that changed minds was George Osborne saying that he had seen the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life".
Anwar Ibrahim, 61, the leader of Malaysia's resurgent opposition, was due to appear in court today to answer charges of sodomy against a 23-year-old male aide.
"We've had to make some difficult decisions … " An aide mimed a throat slit manoeuvre and the bit about working-class criminals not being great vote-winners got faded out.
John Whittingdale, the Conservative chair of the culture select committee, and a former aide, said: "It was a very good address.
Janice Atkinson, who was running as a candidate in Folkestone and Hythe, will surely go after an aide claimed an invoice for £3,150 from a restaurant Margate.
An aide to the chancellor said the result "remains robust".
But the aide, who requested anonymity in order to discuss a swiftly moving process, said the Senate has no time to convince the House to do anything else on surveillance: "The House will be gone by lunchtime tomorrow," with lawmakers rushing to airports to return to their constituents for a legislative holiday that will last until after the scheduled expiration of Section 215.
