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

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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

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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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1. Stanley Goldfarb:

   Our main purpose is to be a voice for people and to let them know that there are those fighting for them to achieve equitable care, the best care available. And if that's the goal of physicians, then all patients will benefit. And if the goal is to produce a sort of racist discrimination, then some patients will not benefit, while others might benefit. And that's not fair and that's not something we support. So we would ask [ people ] to join us to help lend their voice to the concerns that we have and the goals that we've laid out.

2. Mary Hamman:

   Parents of all socioeconomic statuses do a bit of cost benefit analysis when they decide whether and how much to participate in well-baby care, if they must take a day or afternoon off work, negotiate complex transportation logistics, or miss out on time they could be spending attending to more pressing issues – like food, housing or utility insecurity – then they want to feel there is a clear benefit to doing so.

3. Buddhist:

   A benefit given to the good is like characters engraven on a stone; a benefit given to the evil is like a line drawn on water.

4. The Koch:

   What we've told them all is that right now, we're not supporting anyone, we're telling them that if they want our support, one way to get it is articulating a good message to help Americans get a better understand and a better appreciation of how certain policies will benefit them and will benefit all America. At the top of that agenda, Charles Koch told attendees this weekend, is convincing elected officials to phase out.

5. Pierre Charron:

   He who receives a benefit should never forget it he who bestow should never remember it.