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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There are a few stipulations depending on where you move, but there is also a long list of countries the agency works with amicably to coordinate benefit payments.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
According to the professor, pupils would benefit from consistent marking and faster feedback with AI but it could also be a game changer for teachers.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
A $150 March Madness ticket would not, likely, be of real material benefit to either of you.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
More missile demand will benefit many companies, including L3Harris Technologies and RTX.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
Arranging for his remaining debts to be paid, he left “the use, profit and benefit of my whole Estate... for the term of her natural life” to Martha.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
