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- noun Plural form of
benefit . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
benefit .
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Examples
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�The number of Minnesotans without health insurance jumped nearly 30 percent over the past three years� The percentage of Minnesotans without health insurance jumped from 5.4 percent in 2001 to 6.7 percent in 2004�fewer Minnesotans are getting health coverage through their jobs, another sign that employers are cutting or scaling back health care benefits, because of the rising cost of those benefits��
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One of the main benefits is encouragement and motivation from hearing how others are getting on.
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Use of an altered military discharge certificate to obtain benefits is punishable by up to one year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has claimed he is proud to receive £25,000 a year in benefits from the British taxpayer because the money ‘belongs to Allah’.
Under Sharia Law everything is free! « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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McCain benefits from the lack of a united democratic party.
Obama picks up two superdelegates, gap narrowed to seven 2008
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“Growth in benefits is unsustainable,” it warned, going on to recommend fourteen measures of containment: nine “limited-risk initiatives” and five “bold steps.”
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“Growth in benefits is unsustainable,” it warned, going on to recommend fourteen measures of containment: nine “limited-risk initiatives” and five “bold steps.”
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Thus, although, as the Telegraph reminds us, Britain benefits from a certain influx of legal immigrants, we are also confronting ever larger numbers of immigrants, legal and illegal, who despise everything about this country except its welfare provisions and the criminal opportunities opened up by politically correct policing.
Are you thinking what we're thinking? Richard 2006
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(Yeltsin's popularity, and Russia's image, suffered from his occasional displays of public drunkenness; Putin benefits from a reputation for sobriety and takes care to imbibe modestly in public.)
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(Yeltsin's popularity, and Russia's image, suffered from his occasional displays of public drunkenness; Putin benefits from a reputation for sobriety and takes care to imbibe modestly in public.)
JoeyGerharz commented on the word benefits
I'd say it is something that you get as a result of owning something, being a member of something, having the rights to something, or doing something, like the benefits of being the first one to look up this word include being first and writing this explanation.
May 15, 2009