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benefit

[ben-uh-fit] / ˈbɛn ə fɪt /




Usage

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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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Intel stands to benefit from a CPU boom and a growing array of partnerships, but an analyst notes it’s “not out of the woods yet.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

In recent years, crypto and software stocks have often moved in tandem, with both seen as risk-on assets that tend to benefit when investors are more willing to buy into growth and speculation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Silicon depends on near-perfect purity to function efficiently, but perovskites benefit from their imperfections.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

Wardley: "It can be done. Whether it's a positive and it gives you any benefit is a different question entirely. Is it the best course of action? Probably not."

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Those who had saved my life, whom, till this hour, I had loved barrenly, I could now benefit.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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