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benefit
  1. An advantage, help, sake 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 performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
  4. (obsolete) beneficence; liberality
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The discount we received on their products was a benefit of being a member.”
      “This soup kitchen was established for the benefit of the hungry and homeless.”
      “He was relegated to living on a benefit provided for by the government after being laid off.”
benefice
  1. Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
  2. (obsolete) A favour or benefit.
  3. (feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Latimer, despite having opportunity to preach often in London, soon grew weary of court and the king offered him a benefice at West Kington, in Wiltshire.”
beneficence
  1. An act of philanthropy, a kind deed; an act which benefits someone else.
  2. Good or charitable character or behavior.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The billionaire showed his generosity by making a sizeable beneficence to the local orphanage.”
      “The doctor's unwavering beneficence towards her patients was evident in her tireless efforts to provide exceptional care.”
      “It affects those who are the beneficiaries of the charity's functions, beneficence and bounty.”
benefaction
  1. An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
  2. An act of charity; almsgiving.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Poor people could not always afford candles, and one of the cathedral deans, Andrew Kilkenny, came to their rescue with a benefaction.”
      “Paul freely acknowledges that he himself had been the recipient of Phoebe's kind benefaction.”
      “It is left to us to keep their generous benefaction alive, and our blessed, beautiful country worthy of their courage.”
beneficiary
benefactive
  1. A term or sentence element that serves a benefactive role or that is inflected for the benefactive case or a similar case (such as the dative case).
benefactor
  1. Somebody who gives one a gift. Usually refers to someone who gives money to a charity or another form of organization.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Now air ambulance bosses intend to name the new helicopter after their generous benefactor.”
      “And who was this Evans, this wealthy connoisseur, benefactor and amasser of valuables?”
      “The Greek cities considered their king as their benefactor, while he himself felt a duty to fulfil this role.”
beneficialness
benefactoress
  1. Alternative form of benefactress
benefactour
  1. Obsolete form of benefactor.
benefiter
  1. A person who receives a benefit.
benefitt
  1. Archaic spelling of benefit.
benefactrix
benefactress
  1. A female benefactor.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Eight years of toiling for the attentions of some noble benefactress and eight years of writing stories.”
      “Their benefactress stood before them, still twisting at her apron, and she talked.”
      “Read about the Saurian Expedition of 1905 on which UCMP benefactress Annie Alexander collected many ichthyosaurs.”
benefactoresses
  1. plural of benefactoress
benefactresses
benefactions
  1. plural of benefaction
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But society visits upon its members other benefactions, of such significance as to make it appear more and more divine.”
      “It is worth examining these benefactions carefully in order to determine from whence individual things came.”
      “Kellogg College has received generous benefactions from the Kellogg Foundation.”
benefactives
  1. plural of benefactive
benefactours
  1. plural of benefactour
beneficences
benefactrices
beneficiaries
  1. plural of beneficiary
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The three sons of Mr Lionel Smith, whose administratrix is the respondent, were the beneficiaries.”
      “The willed third of the property cannot cover all the mentioned beneficiaries.”
      “Any failure on its part can be visited by an action by the investors as beneficiaries under a trust.”
benefactors
  1. plural of benefactor
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Someone who is this unhinged sounds like the type who might turn on his benefactors.”
      “The question of whether you are true artists or the fortunate benefactors of happenstance cannot be answered until you make a second film.”
      “Individual benefactors, who wish to remain anonymous, have given generously.”
benefiters
  1. plural of benefiter
benefices
  1. plural of benefice
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The majority of benefices in these deaneries were unlikely to attract the covetous attention of pluralist clergy seeking to acquire rich livings.”
      “After a papal bull of 1558 all such former monks were ordered to return to their monasteries, under threat of losing church benefices.”
      “Refractories who refused it were to be ineligible for benefices under the new order.”
benefits
  1. plural of benefit
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The discounts we receive on their products are some of the benefits of being a member.”
      “He was relegated to living on benefits provided for by the government after being laid off.”
      “The community organized benefits to raise funds for victims of the recent hurricane.”
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