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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Unified staff, the charter “failed to meet or make sufficient progress toward meeting standards that provide a benefit to the pupils.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Health insurers Oscar and Centene are expected to benefit as AI-driven job disruption expands the nontraditional workforce.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Buyers can elect to continue the income over a spouse’s lifetime and add a death benefit for other heirs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
But the program can only pay out what it collects, which means an automatic benefit cut on the day the reserves are exhausted.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
If only the Americans were making Cleo look beautiful for OUR benefit.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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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