Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous.
- adj. Law Receiving or having the right to receive proceeds or other advantages.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Contributing to a valuable end; conferring benefit; advantageous; profitable; useful; helpful.
- Having or conferring the right to the use or benefit, as of property; pertaining or entitled to the usufruet: as, a beneficial owner (which see, below); a beneficial interest in an estate.
- Pertaining to or having a benefice; beneficed.
- Kind; generous: as, a “beneficial foe,”
- n. A benefice; a church living.
- n. In zoology, an animal which benefits man by destroying or checking the increase of animals injurious to him.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by
to . - adj. (Law) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit.
- adj. obsolete King.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. promoting or enhancing well-being
Etymologies
- From Late Latin beneficiālis ("beneficial"), from Latin beneficium ("benefit, favor, kindness"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French beneficial, from Late Latin beneficiālis, from Latin beneficium, benefit; see benefice. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We're trying to protect what we call the beneficial uses of the water," Cash said.”
“If it becomes known that the govenment intends to use the banks that pass inspection in beneficial take-overs of the banks that fail (or their assets anyway) the most secure banks will seek out the government so that they could be inspected early.”
“Both of these applications of stock creation are finite in beneficial extent.”
Stock Options as Tax Deferral, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Government spending can be reduced by enormous amounts without serious consequences, and long-term beneficial effect, but in the short term this can result in an adjustment period with recessionary implications.”
“This month, the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program selected its new group of First Mover Fellows: individuals embedded deep within large companies with great capacity to lead the way to achieving fundamental social change -- change that is also strategic and long-term beneficial for the companies involved.”
The Huffington Post: Judith Samuelson: Business Must Lead From the "Mud" to Bring About Big Change
“I am cautiously optimistic that the spotlight put upon the country's very poorest people will have long-term beneficial effects.”
The Huffington Post: Mubashir Ahmed: Floods in Pakistan Expose Chronic Poverty, Injustice
“For the most part, it's something beneficial" is the book equivalent of lentils and tofu.”
“What would be more beneficial is for tax-payers to set up CCTV to spy on councilors to see where our council tax is being used!”
“My other teaching stints have all been sprawling, multi-week gigs and I'm interested in what people would find most beneficial from a more concise, focused session.”
“Economists in general acknowledge that reduced tax rates will have long-term beneficial effects.”
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The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
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MikeD's list
Michael Dungan’s work is dedicated to discovering new abundance in our community by reclassifying waste as an asset. Through his consultancy APISync, LLC, the community project Zero...
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