benefit
Usage
What are other ways to say benefit?
Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit.
Example Sentences
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Since the cancellation of the visas, both have been the recipients of Significant Public Benefit parole, which can be used to allow individuals to enter the U.S. to cooperate with law enforcement, the sources said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
In the most recent Employee Benefit Research Institute Retirement Confidence Survey, just 25% of retirees said they were very confident they would have enough money to live comfortably throughout retirement.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
That’s down from 65% in 2025, a survey by the nonprofit Employee Benefit Research Institute found.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
An Italian authority is investigating beauty brands Benefit and Sephora after they appeared to adopt a "particularly insidious" marketing strategy of using young influencers to market skincare to children.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
I am sure we pay dear enough for our Protection, & why should we not have the Benefit of it?
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing benefit
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 11-20
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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