benefit
financial assistance in time of need
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,770 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,998 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- financial assistance in time of need
- something that aids or promotes well-being also: welfare for the benefit of all
- a performance to raise money for a charitable cause
verb
- derive a benefit from also: profit, gain She profited from his vast experience
- be beneficial for also: do good This will do you good
benefit in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Whatever benefit the girl might have given the children was lost in their contempt for her.
Back to Billabong · Mary Grant Bruce · Chapter 1
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She told me of her interests and all the schemes to benefit mankind she has in hand.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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That must be a pernicious agitation of the circumambient atmosphere, which conduces not to the benefit of any individual.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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The tables groaned with the weight of dishes, some of which may be enumerated for the benefit of modern gastronomers.
Windsor Castle · William Harrison Ainsworth · Chapter 1
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This is included for the benefit of reciters and their audiences who have found the entire poem too long for declamation.
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1