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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The proposed rule explains that a plan sponsor can adopt a lifetime income solution so long as it determines, “within its discretion, that the lifetime income benefit provides commensurate value for the fees charged.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
But the conflict did benefit some sectors, particularly energy stocks as oil and gas prices soared.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
More than four red ratings over a 12-month period could see drivers removed from the Motability scheme, which allows eligible disabled people to lease a new car using part of their benefit payments.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
Analyst Melissa Weathers said that Applied Materials looks primed to benefit from recent chip-sector strength and an uptick in demand for its dynamic random-access memory chips — a major revenue segment for the company.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
I let go of Elliot, who I’d held on to more for my own benefit than for his, and put my hands on my knees so I could hack up a mud-caked lung.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
