Benefit

['benɪfɪt] or ['bɛnɪfɪt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) something that aids or promotes well-being; 'for the benefit of all'.

(noun.) a performance to raise money for a charitable cause.

(noun.) financial assistance in time of need.

(verb.) be beneficial for; 'This will do you good'.

艾丽莎手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

(n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.

(n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

(n.) Beneficence; liberality.

(n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.

(v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.

(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

編輯:路易斯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Favor, service, act of kindness, good turn, kind office.[2]. Advantage, profit, avail, gain, good, utility, behalf, behoof, account, interest.

v. a. [1]. Befriend, help, serve, do good to, be useful to, advance the interest of, confer a favor on.[2]. Profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to.

安吉洛手打

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing

ANT:Evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury,privation

錄入:厄普顿

解釋/意思:

n. a kindness: a favour: any advantage natural or other: a performance at a theatre the proceeds of which go to one of the company.—v.t. to do good to.—v.i. to gain advantage (with from) —ns. Ben′efit-of-cler′gy in old English law the exemption of the persons of ecclesiastics from criminal process before a secular judge they being responsible only to their ordinary. This privilege at first limited to those in actual orders was in 1350 extended to all manner of clerks and in later practice to all who could read whether of clergy or laity; Ben′efit-of-in′ventory (Scots law) a legal privilege whereby an heir secured himself against unlimited liability for his ancestor by giving up within the annus deliberandi an inventory of his heritage or real estate to the extent of which alone was the heir liable.—Benefit societies associations for mutual benefit chiefly among the labouring classes better known as Friendly societies.

錄入:厄普顿