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Benefit in a sentence

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Benefit meaning

  1. An advantage; help or aid from something.
  2. A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
  3. An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.

Synonyms of Benefit

payment help do good acquire get gain profit public presentation performance goodness good welfare aid

Example sentences (20)

As a PET, the famer could not benefit from the farm – no longer live in the farmhouse, or benefit from the revenue.

What’s more, the lion’s share of the economic benefit of the mines has not gone to benefit Indigenous communities.

With the pandemic benefit, seekers far outstrip the capacity of the state's jobless benefit system to accept claims.

Some policies allow the death benefit to rise over time whereas others maintain the same death benefit for life.

No. Is anyone who would have received a benefit under the original scheme no longer going to receive a benefit?

It also prohibits them from offering financial benefit or benefit in kind as an inducement for their services.

In economics, an externality is a cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.

Generally, the proper standard of review for employee benefit decisions, such as the denial of benefit claims, is de novo.

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Proceeds will benefit the BEF Mini-Grants and other programs that benefit the Bristol Public School system.

A traditional pension plan that defines a benefit for an employee upon that employee's retirement is a defined benefit plan.

A benefit of growing up in the ‘90s was seeing the Chicago Cubs and Bulls via WGN, and the Atlanta Braves and Hawks through the Turner Networks.

Even if that letter about 48 hours is delivered and investigated, who is going to benefit and what benefit to a poor Zambian.

They only need to prevail in their enemies’ minds, skewing cost/benefit calculations to China’s benefit.

Suppose your own benefit is $2,000, which implies a maximum spousal benefit of $1,000 for your husband.

Target benefit plans are defined contribution plans made to match (or resemble) defined benefit plans.

It is for the benefit of the country and that is what we talked about; how this will benefit the country going forward,” he said.

The report also found that the project would deliver $4.40 benefit for every dollar spent and $90 billion net benefit over 30 years.

You have suggested that things might have gone wrong when you were moved from Invalidity Benefit to Incapacity Benefit in the 1990s.

Goods that can benefit both the individual and other people are said to have “collective benefit”.

Delaying your benefit until 70 locks in a substantially higher benefit for the rest of your life.

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Common combinations with benefit

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "benefit" in a sentence?
An example: "As a PET, the famer could not benefit from the farm – no longer live in the farmhouse, or benefit from the revenue." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "benefit" from real English texts.
What does "benefit" mean?
Benefit means: An advantage; help or aid from something.
What are synonyms of "benefit"?
Common synonyms of "benefit" include: payment, help, do good, acquire, get, gain, profit, public presentation. Plus 5 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "benefit" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "benefit", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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