Benefit

Quick meaning: Benefit is a noun meaning An advantage; help or aid from something.

Meaning

An advantage; help or aid from something.

More Meanings

1. (insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
2. An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
3. Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
4. (transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
5. (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
6. (obsolete) beneficence; liberality

Example Sentences

She can't read, so the voice recording was made for her benefit.

Exposure to cutting-edge technologies is one of the benefits of the job.

The whole scene was staged for his benefit, and it completely fooled him.

Since my wife is Canadian, whenever we have dinner with my family, they keep bringing up anything they've heard about Canada lately for her benefit.

Word Forms

• benefits
• benefite
• benefiting
• benefitting
• benefited
• benefitted

Synonyms for benefit

Depending on context, synonyms include foredeal, advantage, aid, assistance, boon, help.

Antonyms for benefit

Common opposites include harm, disadvantage, encumbrance, hindrance, malefit, nuisance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gain, welfare, profit, beneficiary, beneficial, behalf.

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