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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One of us will also qualify for a small Social Security benefit.
From MarketWatch
“Gold continues to benefit from a weaker dollar as expectations of U.S. monetary easing weigh on the currency and treasury yields,” says Xing.
Many small businesses are also guardedly hopeful about the new year, in part because they stand to benefit from a high level of tax refunds and new tax incentives in 2026.
From Barron's
Wait until the last possible moment before the deadline to make transfers to benefit from the latest information.
From BBC
In their broad claim of discrimination, the plaintiffs were “not attacking the VA’s individual benefits determinations,” it found.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
