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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In the Help Me Retire column, Alessandra Malito answered questions from a reader about spousal Social Security benefits available to divorced couples.
From MarketWatch
However, the researchers expect similar benefits from other vitamin C rich foods, especially fresh fruits and vegetables such as citrus, berries, capsicums and broccoli.
From Science Daily
It’s remarkable how much future benefit people will forego for a little instant gratification.
Lifordi is developing an ADC to steer glucocorticoids directly to target immune cells, where they exert their benefits, and away from other cells and tissues.
Its wine selection benefits from shipments from small producers who don’t make enough to sell to all of Costco’s locations.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
