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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This screening also identified people who were unlikely to benefit because none of the tested foot angle changes reduced loading in their knees.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Richemont was set to benefit from the positive momentum in the jewelry category and outperform sector rivals.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“We believe our customers will benefit from the broad engineering expertise and operational excellence our combined businesses provide,” Najjar said in the statement.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
But there have been calls for assurances that any sales would benefit local communities and tenants in the Bradninch estate area, near Cullompton, in Devon, which was put up for sale in March 2026.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
To them, the land was a commodity to be acquired and sold for the benefit of individuals.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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