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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Musk and Altman helped found OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit focused on advancing artificial intelligence to benefit humanity.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
The benefit of pods is speed, agility and the ability to do more, faster, with fewer resources, said Rob Witoff, head of platform at Coinbase.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Another consumer might just see the coupon on the third page of their weekly ad, but it’s still there for all to benefit.
From Salon • May 18, 2026
She calls for action on the benefit cap, which limits the total amount a single family can receive, and on the local housing allowance, which she said was having "a really big impact" on families.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
He could get a haircut from his favorite Cuban barber and then take a hot shower and hang out in the Admirals’ Club, a benefit for those with lots of frequent flyer miles.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing benefit
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 11-20
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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