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benefaction
[ben-uh-fak-shuhn, ben-uh-fak-] 
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benefaction
[ben-uh-fak-shuhn, ben-uh-fak-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charitable donation |
| Synonyms: | aid, alms, contribution, donation, endowment, gift, legacy, relief |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
| Antonyms: | blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| Main Entry: | alms |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handout |
| Synonyms: | aid, assistance, benefaction, charity, contribution, dole, donation, offering |
| Main Entry: | boon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | benefaction, benefit, benevolence, blessing, break, compliment, donation, favor, gift, godsend, good, good fortune, grant, gratuity, help, largess, present, windfall |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | generosity, gift |
| Synonyms: | alms, alms-giving, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, gifting, hand*, hand-out, helping hand, largesse, oblation, offering, philanthropy, relief, write-off |
| Antonyms: | stealing, taking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift, offering |
| Synonyms: | a hand, addition, alms, augmentation, benefaction, beneficence, bestowal, charity, do one's part, donation, gifting, grant, handout, helping hand, improvement, increase, input, present, significant addition, subscription, supplement, write-off |
| Main Entry: | donation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift |
| Synonyms: | a hand, aid, allowance, alms, appropriation, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, bequest, boon, charity, contribution, do one's part, dole, endowment, gifting, grant, gratuity, handout, help, helping hand largess, lump, offering, philanthropy, pittance, present, presentation, ration, relief, subscription, subsidy, subvention, write-off |
| Main Entry: | endowment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large gift |
| Synonyms: | award, benefaction, benefit, bequest, bestowal, boon, bounty, dispensation, donation, fund, funding, gifting, grant, gratuity, income, inheritance, largess, legacy, nest egg, pension, presentation, property, provision, revenue, stake, stipend, subsidy, trust |
| Antonyms: | loss |
| Main Entry: | gift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something given freely, for no recompense |
| Synonyms: | allowance, alms, award, benefaction, benefit, bequest, bestowal, bonus, boon, bounty, charity, contribution, courtesy, dispensation, donation, endowment, fairing, favor, giveaway, goodie, grant, gratuity, hand, hand-me-down, handout, honorarium, lagniappe, largesse, legacy, libation, oblation, offering, offertory, philanthropy, pittance, premium, present, presentation, provision, ration, relief, remembrance, remittance, reward, souvenir, subscription, subsidy, tip, token, tribute, write-off |
| Antonyms: | forfeit, loss, penalty |
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