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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Prosecutors allege Price repeatedly voted on items before the City Council that benefited agencies and companies that had previously done business with his wife, Del Richardson, and her consulting company, Del Richardson & Associates.
From Los Angeles Times
From Wall Street’s point of view, the fallout from their limited price concessions was manageable, while averting the threat of very steep tariffs or a more aggressive effort to regulate prices was a substantial benefit.
Its reconsideration would have been for the "benefit of the health and well-being of millions of people around the globe", it concluded.
From BBC
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng delivered a speech at Davos this week denouncing “rising unilateralism and protectionism” while portraying China as a benefit to the world.
A spokesperson for Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon said he is “committed to working on a solution that benefits the entire basin, while protecting Wyoming’s interests.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
