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benefit
/ˈbɛn.ɪˌfɪt/
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What does benefit mean?
noun
- An advantage; help or aid from something.
- A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
- An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
More meanings (4)
noun
- Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
- (obsolete) beneficence; liberality
verb
- To be or to provide a benefit to.
- To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɛn.ɪˌfɪt/
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It can harmonize, assimilate, and protect the several parts and members, and extend the benefit of its foresight and precautions to each.
And yet, as this suffering became less intense, softened as it was by time, he began to discover the benefit of it.
More book examples (3)
Objection I.--It is suggested that the class of people for whose benefit the Scheme is designed would not avail themselves of it.
To dream of taking malted drinks, denotes that you will interest yourself in some dangerous affair, but will reap much benefit therefrom.
A third method would be based upon a mixing of the air strata, thus getting the benefit of the warmer higher levels.