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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While it’s true passengers typically pony up for all sorts of extras on a sailing, from drink packages to specialty dining, they see a true benefit to those things, she noted.
From MarketWatch
Most potential homebuyers would get relief from a single report; but all borrowers benefit from making the bureaus compete.
Mr Wright believes returning to the Moon will benefit the future of mankind.
From BBC
Oracle has benefited from the AI boom but investors have been wary about how much the company is spending.
From Los Angeles Times
“We obviously want to be positioned in companies that are innovating and benefiting from this change and trying to avoid many of the traditional business models that are being disrupted,” he said.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
