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benefit

[ben-uh-fit] / ˈbɛn ə fɪt /




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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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Will he exercise his control mostly for the benefit of shreholders, or for himself?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

If you delay claiming your retirement benefit beyond FRA, it will continue to increase until age 70.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Large international studies have found that the kidney disease drug finerenone may benefit far more patients than current treatment guidelines recommend.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Bankers have told both companies that whichever startup goes first will get to define the new industry and benefit from being able to access large pools of cash eager to back new AI companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

It was a shocking request and of no possible physical comfort or medical benefit to Lincoln, but Dr. Leale allowed it.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson




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