benefit
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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The airtime has been reduced mainly because daily half-hour-episodes have the benefit of being in a reliable slot, and are in "a more consumable length and format", Macleod says.
From BBC
While some people genuinely benefited from body-positivity messaging, many felt they were performing agreement rather than expressing what they actually felt.
Lens did not benefit from the one-man advantage until the start of the second half when they laid siege to the Toulouse goal.
From Barron's
In a separate note, they said adult consumers with more money and a decent entertainment pipeline should benefit the toy industry.
From MarketWatch
From flagrant noncompete bids to overextended “emergency” contracts and open markets of fraud and nepotism, the disarray of New York City’s social services harms everyone and benefits few.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
