WikiWord

English

benefits

noun

Meaning

  1. An advantage; help 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. Beneficence; liberality
  5. To be or to provide a benefit to.
  6. To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

do good(English)gain(English)welfare(English)profit(English)achievements(English)advances(English)advantage(English)advantageous(English)retiree(English)outweigh(English)pension(English)compensation(English)

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
benefits — meaning and etymology | WikiWord