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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, benefit |
| Synonyms: | asset, avail, behalf, benediction, blessing, boon*, commonwealth, favor, gain, godsend, good fortune, interest, nugget, plum, prize, profit, prosperity, service, treasure, use, usefulness, welfare, well-being, windfall |
| Notes: | using good as an adverb in place of well ("she dances real good," "he did good") is nonstandard usage - so, it would be best to say "she dances very well," "he did well" well is an adverb to describe an activity; good is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | increment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small step toward gain |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, accrual, accrument, addition, advancement, augmentation, enlargement, increase, profit, raise, rise, supplement |
| Antonyms: | decrease, loss |
| Main Entry: | interest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | benefit, gain, good, profit, prosperity, welfare, well-being |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make money to support living |
| Synonyms: | acquire a livelihood, earn a living, earn money, fare, feed, get along, get by, maintain, make ends meet, make it, profit, subsist, support |
| Main Entry: | luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good fortune |
| Synonyms: | advantage, big break, blessing, break*, fluke, fortunateness, godsend, good luck, happiness, health, in the cards, karma*, kismet*, luckiness, lucky break, occasion, opportunity, profit, prosperity, run of luck, serendipity, smile*, streak of luck, stroke, success, triumph, victory, weal, wealth, win, windfall |
| Antonyms: | bad fortune, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
| Synonyms: | advantage, avail, concern, consequence, gravity, import, magnitude, momentousness, note, pith, profit, seriousness, significance, signification, substance, use, value, weight, weightiness, worth |
| Antonyms: | triviality, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | net |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gain after expenses |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, bring in, clean up, clear, earn, make, profit, realize, reap |
| Antonyms: | gross |
| Main Entry: | oblige |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do a favor or kindness |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, aid, assist, avail, bend over backward, benefit, come around, contribute, convenience, don't make waves, favor, fill the bill, fit in, go fifty-fifty, gratify, grin and bear it, help, indulge, make a deal, make room, meet halfway, please, profit, put oneself out, roll with it, serve, swim with the tide, take it, toe the mark |
| Antonyms: | be mean |
| Main Entry: | output |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something produced |
| Synonyms: | achievement, amount, crop, gain, harvest, making, manufacture, manufacturing, producing, product, production, productivity, profit, take, turnout, yield |
| Antonyms: | input |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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