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Etymology

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From LateMiddle Englishbenefytt,benefett, alteration (due toLatinbene-) ofbenfet,bienfet,bienfait(“good or noble deed”), fromAnglo-Normanbenfet(“well-done”),Middle Frenchbienfait, fromOld Frenchbienfet,bienfait(“foredeal, favour”), from past participle ofbienfaire(“to do good, do well”), frombien(“well”) +faire(“to do”), modelled afterLatinbenefactum(“good deed”). More atbenefactor.

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Noun

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benefit (countable anduncountable,pluralbenefits)

  1. Anadvantage;help oraid from something.
    She can't read, so the voice recording was made for herbenefit.
    Exposure to cutting-edge technologies is one of thebenefits of the job.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter V, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for hisbenefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
    • 1954 April, A. R. G. Hawkins, “The Easingwold Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page271:
      For the trip over the grass-covered sleepers and between the cow-parsley and briars, an open wagon was added to the usual combination of locomotive and coach, for thebenefit of those who wanted to take photographs.
  2. (insurance) Apayment made inaccordance with aninsurancepolicy or apublicassistancescheme.
  3. Anevent, such as atheatricalperformance, given toraisefunds for somecause.
    • 1978 April 8, Eric Rogers, “People, Places and Flings”, inGay Community News, page13:
      Gore Vidal[…] will be sharing his wit and wisdom at the Arlington Street Church on Wednesday, April 5th at 7:00. The appearance is abenefit for the Boston/Boise Committee and the tickets are priced at $5.
  4. (obsolete)beneficence;liberality
  5. Intended audience (asfor the benefit of).
    The whole scene was staged for hisbenefit, and it completely fooled him.
    Since my wife is Canadian, whenever we have dinner with my family, they keep bringing up anything they've heard about Canada lately for herbenefit.
    • 2020 April 16, Gary D.D. Morrison, J.S.C., “Succession de Kalimbet Piela c. Obodzinski, 2020 QCCS 1222”, inCanLII‎[1], retrieved9 May 2021:
      So, if Obodzinski is correct in saying that Mrs. Piela actually signed a document in the coffee shop, in front of witnesses, she staged a scene, pretending that it was the alleged Mandate. The other explanation is that none of this ever took place, and the staging was only a fictitious creation for thebenefit of the Court.

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Translations

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advantage, help or aid
profit, use
payment, subsidy
performance given to raise funds

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Verb

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benefit (third-person singular simple presentbenefits,present participlebenefitingorbenefitting,simple past and past participlebenefitedorbenefitted)

  1. (transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
  2. (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be abeneficiary.
    • 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, inTrains Illustrated, page329:
      Diesel maintenance schedules arebenefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].
    • 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, inRAIL, issue 922, page63:
      Instead, the grime of the steam years which still discoloured many of the best architectural features Betjeman loved has been cleared away, and several of the stations havebenefited from major refurbishments which have greatly improved them.

Usage notes

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  • Benefiting andbenefited are more common, withbenefitting andbenefitted being minor variants, more so in North America.

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Translations

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to be or provide a benefit to
to receive a benefit

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishbenefit.

Noun

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benefit m (invariable)

  1. benefit,advantage

Latin

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Verb

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benefit

  1. third-personsingularpresentpassiveindicative ofbenefaciō
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