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

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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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. Michael Madden:

   PUST exposes them to all sorts of subject matter and to interesting people, they benefit enormously from that, and North Korea is not going to upset that applecart.

2. Aaron Reuben:

   Simply put, clean water is a requirement for health, well-being, productivity, and dignity - and we are failing our citizens in providing for this basic necessity. We feel that the residents of Flint who lived through the water crisis have been remarkably resilient - and yet there is still a large, unmet need for mental health services to address the psychological impacts of the event, which are reflected in very high rates of diagnosable depression and PTSD across The Flint community, the lesson for communities like Jackson, MS, is to not overlook psychological injury, and to not assume that, just because community members are resilient, they could not benefit from services to address the psychological scars of a long-term water crisis.

3. Peter Schwartz:

   We have to confront the fact that we have people in pain who do not benefit from these medications or cannot comply with the requirements of these contracts, we have to find a new way to balance our responsibility to use these medications appropriately with our commitment to compassionately treat pain.

4. Rashida Tlaib:

   Freedom of speech doesn't exist for Muslim women in Congress, the benefit of the doubt doesn't exist for Muslim women in Congress. House Democratic leadership should be ashamed of its relentless, exclusive tone policing of Congresswomen of color.

5. Napolean Hill:

   I have also discovered that there comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit.