Definition of benefits Benefits
/bɛˈnʌfɪts/ - [benufits] -
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Wiktionary 
- benefits (Noun)
Plural of benefit.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: benefits |
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| benefit - financial assistance in time of need | ||
| payment the act of paying money | ||
| stock option a benefit given by a company to an employee in the form of an option to buy stock in the company at a discount or at a fixed price; "stock options are not much use as an incentive if the price at which they can be exercised is out of reach" | ||
| cost-of-living benefit a benefit that goes to anyone whose money receipts increase automatically as prices rise | ||
| death benefit insurance or pension money payable to a beneficiary of a deceased | ||
| disability benefit insurance benefits paid in case of disability | ||
| sick benefit, sickness benefit money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work | ||
| benefit - something that aids or promotes well-being; "for the benefit of all" | ||
| welfare | ||
| goodness, good moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people" | ||
| advantage, reward benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity" | ||
| benefit - a performance to raise money for a charitable cause | ||
| public presentation, performance any recognized accomplishment; "they admired his performance under stress"; "when Roger Maris powered four home runs in one game his performance merits awe" | ||
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| benefit - be beneficial for; "This will do you good" | ||
| do good | ||
| aid, help improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient" | ||
| benefit - derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience" | ||
| profit, gain | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| cash in on take advantage of or capitalize on | ||
| profiteer make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | ||
| take advantage, capitalise, capitalize convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | ||
| pyramid increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base | ||
| sack up, net, sack, clear catch with a net; "net a fish" | ||
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Wiktionary
- benefit (Noun)
An advantage, help or aid from something. - benefit (Noun)
A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme. - benefit (Noun)
A performance, etc, given to raise funds for some cause. - benefit (Verb)
To be or to provide a benefit to. - benefit (Verb)
To receive a benefit from; to be a beneficiary.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- benefit (n.)
An act of kindness; a favor conferred. - benefit (n.)
Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit. - benefit (n.)
A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use. - benefit (n.)
Beneficence; liberality. - benefit (n.)
Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments. - benefit (v. t.)
To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit. - benefit (v. i.)
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The advantageous quality of being beneficial. -
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To be a benefit. -
benefit
A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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benefit
ben′e-fit, n. a kindness: a favour: any advantage, natural or other: a performance at a theatre, the proceeds of which go to one of the company.—v.t. to do good to.—v.i. to gain advantage (with from),—ns. Ben′efit-of-cler′gy, in old English law, the exemption of the persons of ecclesiastics from criminal process before a secular judge, they being responsible only to their ordinary. This privilege, at first limited to those in actual orders, was in 1350 extended to all manner of clerks, and in later practice to all who could read, whether of clergy or laity; Ben′efit-of-in′ventory (Scots law), a legal privilege whereby an heir secured himself against unlimited liability for his ancestor, by giving up within the annus deliberandi an inventory of his heritage or real estate, to the extent of which alone was the heir liable.—Benefit societies, associations for mutual benefit chiefly among the labouring classes, better known as Friendly societies. [M. E. benfet, through Fr. from L. benefactum.]
