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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San Francisco public schools shut down on Monday as teachers went on strike demanding improved healthcare benefits and pay raises, leaving the families of some 50,000 students scrambling for child care and meals.
From Los Angeles Times
"We still benefit enormously from our security and military and intelligence relationship with America," he says.
From BBC
The contestants on MrBeast's videos could perhaps benefit from Step's goal of teaching financial literacy.
From Barron's
The stock has benefited from its dependable cash flows, global scale, and dividend appeal at a time when investors have been rotating toward lower-risk names.
From Barron's
That value is then distributed either to labor as wages and benefits, or to capital as profits and interest.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
