From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhelp out phrasal verbHELPto help someone because they are busy or have problems Do you need anyone to help out in the shop?help somebody ↔ out (with something) I helped her out when Stella became ill. She was helping him out with his mortgage repayments. → help→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
help out• My brother said he would help out.• Now there are times on farms when they need a lot of people to help out.• Organizing the school trip will be a lot of work, so I need some volunteers to help out.• But recently, because of the Kobe earthquake, people wanted to help out.• For 14 hours a week, a care assistant helps out.• No need to thank me - I was just glad to help out a friend.• We saw it as an opportunity to harvest an animal and help out Fish and Game.• She is used to helping out friends by driving them around.• Their son used to help out in the shop when it was busy.• While I'm gone, try to help your Mom out, OK?• Final addition is a button that electro-pneumatically locks the rear differential to help out on the serious off-road stuff.• He still helps out with Army Cadets!• The kids are always good about helping out with the chores.help somebody ↔ out (with something)• I called on a conveniently passing traffic warden to help me out.• Our concern is with the fire service and doing our small part to help that out.• The only way we would be worse with them was to help them out in another war.• His teammates helped talk him out of it.• Your assignment: Curbing crime and helping people get out of poverty.• This agency should be funded as employers are given financial help to carry out their obligations under the legislation.• I agreed to help you out tonight, but that was all I agreed to.• If you refuse to come and help me out with this, you might miss getting your end away. 