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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All three stocks have benefited from travel delays amid the partial government shutdown.
From Barron's
Shares of companies that benefited from travel chaos, including Hertz, fell Friday.
From Barron's
Passengers may not appreciate the long airport security lines created by TSA staffing shortages, but there have been some benefits to investors in rental car and security companies.
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All three stocks have benefited from travel delays amid the partial government shutdown.
From Barron's
Farmers and processors are poised to benefit from rules requiring more biofuels for use at the nation’s gas stations and truckstops.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
