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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We asked him if he now agreed with Reform's position on benefits for bigger families – his answer was that the party "needs to think it through".
From BBC
Her investigations into benefits theft were featured as a segment on "This American Life."
To experience the benefits of mattering, we need to feel valued, but we also need the opportunity to add value again.
"Now we know it's so much more than that - it has health benefits way beyond the bowel."
From BBC
With the benefit of time and a bit of economic theory, I came to realize that my youthful view of Martin Luther King was exactly backward.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
