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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But there are some less-broad aspects of this bill that would benefit some athletes too, such as new medical benefits, including costs incurred from catastrophic injuries that exceed $90,000, and an end-of-college physical examination.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
United is investing $330 million in a new headquarters and warehouse and sales facilities, and the city continues to benefit from the entrepreneurship born of its black community’s cultural heritage of resilience.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
In truth, it undermines program integrity, eliminates key consumer protections, forces consumers into choices that are not to their benefit and saddles states with higher costs.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Airbus, along with Leonardo SpA and Thales, is likely to benefit from any European Space Agency collaboration with America on moon projects, he adds.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
“Try to give Israel the benefit of the doubt, okay? If he says he was being sincere, believe him.”
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Vocabulary lists containing benefit
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 11-20
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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