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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Wait until the last possible moment before the deadline to make transfers to benefit from the latest information.
From BBC
In their broad claim of discrimination, the plaintiffs were “not attacking the VA’s individual benefits determinations,” it found.
From Los Angeles Times
Coale and the U.S. team saw the benefits to U.S. farmers.
The other benefit of being obsessed with the Christmas singles was that it helped you find the other weirdos.
From Salon
There is still an active ongoing debate in medical circles about whether wine has a health benefit.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
