Benefit
['benɪfɪt] or ['bɛnɪfɪt]
Definition
(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'.
Inputed by Alisa--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Typed by Angelo
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing
ANT:Evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury,privation
Editor: Upton
Definition
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.
Editor: Upton
Examples
- I don't speak of your lover--I will give you the benefit of the doubt in that matter, for it only affects me personally. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Nor was any new office created or any new official title invented for his benefit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A young man naturally conceives an aversion to labour, when for a long time he receives no benefit from it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We have given the pilgrims a good many examples that might benefit them, but it is virtue thrown away. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. Bullock to continue, for their joint benefit, the affairs of the commercial house, or to go out, as he thought fit. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They cling to some arrangement, hoping against experience that a government freed from human nature will automatically produce human benefits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Here again was given a most convincing demonstration of the truth that such an addition to the resources of mankind always carries with it unsuspected benefits even for its enemies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She would take no more benefits from us; she would fling us her name back again, and she would go. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- How _they_ might be benefited, how _they_ must rejoice in such an establishment for you, is nothing to _you_. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And the men had been benefited in their fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Ah, said the Rector, with a nod of satisfaction, you have benefited by the music of the birds already. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- To this question a strict regard for truth compels the answer that they have not been benefited at all, not to the extent of a single dollar, so far as cash damages are concerned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The hypercritical may cavil and say that, as a manufacturer of cement, Edison will be benefited. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Its founder desired while benefiting the poor to enlist th e sympathies of the fashionable world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- None, except St. Pierre, was inimical to me; but which of them had the art, the thought, the habit, of benefiting thus tenderly? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Checker: Paulette