benefit

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  1. noun Something that promotes or enhances well-being; an advantage: The field trip was of great benefit to the students.
  2. noun Help; aid.
  3. noun A payment made or an entitlement available in accordance with a wage agreement, an insurance policy, or a public assistance program.
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  • It happened that a benefit was arranged for some charity. —  A Backward Glance at Eighty
  • Another benefit is the level of convenience for the user that simple 'command and response´ systems such as passwords, PINs and tokens just don´t provide. —  IT & Security Portal» IT-Observer
  • Another benefit is a greater ability to sing in tune.
  • Another benefit will be the creation of a city Public Works Department campus. —  News from www.rep-am.com
  • Over a full year, the benefit is about $7.50 a week for an individual and about $15 for a couple, but the IRS says you'll see roughly double that this year because the change is halfway through the year. —  Today in Oregon: The Oregonian
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advantage ·  value ·  cost ·  need ·  development ·  purpose ·  profit ·  improvement ·  support ·  resource ·  loss

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benefit:   benefits ·  benefited ·  benefiting
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  1. Middle English, from Old French bienfait, good deed, from Latin benefactum, from benefacere, to do a service; see benefaction.

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  1. Early modern English also benifit, benyfit, etc. (also benefact, after L.); from Middle English benefet, benfeet, benfet, benfait, benfeyte, etc., from Anglo-French benfet, bienfet, Old French bienfait, French bienfait = Italian benefatto, from Late Latin benefactum, a kindness, benefit, neuter of benefactus, past participle of benefacere, do good to: see benefaction. The same terminal element occurs in counterfeit, forfeit, and surfeit.
  2. from benefit, n.
 

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/ˈbɛnəfɪt/
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