If you help someone out , you help them by doing some work for them or by lending them some money.
I help out with the secretarial work...
All these presents came to more money than I had, and my mother had to help me out...
He thought you’d been brought in from Toronto to help out the local police.
PHRASAL VERB : V P with n , V n P , V P n (not pron) , also V P