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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There is no benefit to it - all the data that is accessible to them there is also accessible in the garage.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
"We don't want our teachers to interpret what the kids have written and give them the benefit of the doubt because they know them and they know they're trying hard," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
More missile demand will benefit many companies, including L3Harris Technologies and RTX.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
“We said: Let’s get the full tax benefit instead of having higher hurdles going forward,” said Christy Matzen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Duane was offended that his friends wouldn’t give him the benefit of the doubt.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
