Synonyms for benefit
ˈbɛn ə fɪtben·e·fit

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1. benefitnoun

   Synonyms:
   help, batten, aid, subsidy, assistance, boon, foredeal, advantage

   Antonyms:
   detriment, encumbrance, malefic, hindrance, obstacle, nuisance, disadvantage

2. benefitverb

   To be or to provide a benefit to.

   Synonyms:
   assistance, foredeal, boon, aid, help, subsidy, advantage, batten

   Antonyms:
   encumbrance, detriment, malefic, disadvantage, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle

3. benefitnoun

   A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.

   Synonyms:
   batten, help, subsidy, boon, advantage, foredeal, assistance, aid

   Antonyms:
   detriment, obstacle, malefic, disadvantage, nuisance, hindrance, encumbrance

4. benefitnoun

   A performance, etc, given to raise funds for some cause.

   Synonyms:
   subsidy, boon, foredeal, assistance, help, advantage, aid

   Antonyms:
   detriment, encumbrance, obstacle, disadvantage, nuisance, hindrance

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. benefit

   The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.

   Synonyms:
   advantage, avail, emolument, expediency, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, usefulness, utility, value

   Antonyms:
   damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

   Preposition:
   The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

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1. benefit

   Synonyms:
   boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing

   Antonyms:
   evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury, privation

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. benefitnoun

   financial assistance in time of need

   Synonyms:
   welfare

2. benefit, welfarenoun

   something that aids or promotes well-being

   "for the benefit of all"

   Synonyms:
   eudaemonia, social welfare, public assistance, well-being, wellbeing, eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare

3. benefitverb

   a performance to raise money for a charitable cause

   Synonyms:
   welfare

4. profit, gain, benefitverb

   derive a benefit from

   "She profited from his vast experience"

   Synonyms:
   clear, gain ground, derive, acquire, realise, gain, reach, win, get ahead, make headway, attain, turn a profit, bring in, put on, take in, pull in, gather, do good, profit, hit, arrive at, advance, realize, pull ahead, make, earn

5. benefit, do goodverb

   be beneficial for

   "This will do you good"

   Synonyms:
   do good, gain, profit

Matched Categories

1. • Get
   • Help
   • Payment

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. benefitnoun

   Synonyms:
   favor, service, act of kindness, good turn, kind office

2. benefitnoun

   Synonyms:
   advantage, profit, avail, gain, good, utility, behalf, behoof, account, interest

3. benefitverb

   Synonyms:
   befriend, help, serve, do good to, be useful to, advance the interest of, confer a favor on

4. benefitverb

   Synonyms:
   profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to

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1. benefitnoun

   Synonyms:
   avail, profit, behalf, advantage, service

2. benefitverb

   Synonyms:
   help, conduce, avail, advantage, be useful to, do good to

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1. List of paraphrases for "benefit":

   benefits, advantage, profit, delivery, advantages, allowance, interest, favour, provision, enjoy, benefits, allowances, gain, interests, benefit, bienfait, edge, usefulness, sake, avantage, vantaggio, allocation, welfare, entitlements, beneficiary, beneficial, useful

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BENEFIT

   Synonyms:
   Betaseron in Newly Emerging Multiple Sclerosis for Initial Treatment trial

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How to use benefit in a sentence?

1. Spokesman Yang Yujun:

   The army is an important force in our military, the setting up of this army mechanism will benefit ... raising management efficiency and accelerate military modernisation.

2. Benjamin Strauss:

   We now understand that the threat from sea-level rise and coastal flooding is far greater than we previously thought, it's also true that the benefits from cutting climate pollution are far greater than we previously thought – this changes the whole benefit-cost equation.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   Rather than writing a partisan bill that will benefit the wealthy and special interests, they should commit to working with Democrats, through regular order, to craft a bill in the light of day that puts the middle class and those struggling to make it first.

4. Hunter Biden:

   I take this matter very seriously, but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisers.

5. Jenny Yip:

   If something doesn’t sit well with you, rather than being passive aggressive about it, acknowledge what is or isn’t working and then have a conversation with whoever is giving you this assignment, defiers usually don’t feel equipped to have these conversations with who they see as authority figures, or they don’t believe that having the conversations would give them any benefit or positive outcome. … That’s not necessarily true.