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Benefit vs. Profit

Benefit and Profit Definitions

Benefit

Something that promotes or enhances well-being; an advantage
The nurse explained the benefits of regular exercise.

Profit

An advantageous gain or return; benefit.

Benefit

Help; aid
The field trip was of great benefit to the students.

Profit

Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value.

Benefit

A payment made by a government agency or insurance company to qualifying persons in time of need
An increase in welfare benefits.

Profit

To make a gain or profit.
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Benefit

A form of compensation, such as paid vacation time, subsidized health insurance, or a pension, provided to employees in addition to wages or salary as part of an employment arrangement. Also called fringe benefit.

Profit

To derive advantage; benefit
Profiting from the other team's mistakes.

Benefit

A public entertainment, performance, or social event held to raise funds for a person or cause.

Profit

To be beneficial to
What has all this time in school profited you?.

Benefit

(Archaic) A kindly deed.

Profit

Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
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Benefit

To be helpful or useful to.

Profit

Benefit, positive result obtained.
Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.

Benefit

To derive benefit
You will benefit from her good example.

Profit

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Benefit

An advantage; help or aid from something.
She can't read, so the voice recording was made for her benefit.
Exposure to cutting-edge technologies is one of the benefits of the job.

Profit

(transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
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Benefit

(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.

Profit

To benefit, gain.

Benefit

An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.

Profit

To take advantage of, exploit, use.

Benefit

(obsolete) beneficence; liberality

Profit

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.

Benefit

Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
The whole scene was staged for his benefit, 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 her benefit.

Profit

Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
This I speak for your own profit.
If you dare do yourself a profit and a right.

Benefit

(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.

Profit

To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
The word preached did not profit them.
It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

Benefit

(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.

Profit

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
I profit not by thy talk.

Benefit

An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

Profit

To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Riches profit not in the day of wrath.

Benefit

Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
Men have no right to what is not for their benefit.

Profit

The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Benefit

A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

Profit

The advantageous quality of being beneficial

Benefit

Beneficence; liberality.

Profit

Derive a benefit from;
She profited from his vast experience

Benefit

Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.

Profit

Make a profit; gain money or materially;
The company has not profited from the merger
I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!
The company turned a loss after the first year

Benefit

To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Benefit

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

Benefit

Financial assistance in time of need

Benefit

Something that aids or promotes well-being;
For the common good

Benefit

A performance to raise money for a charitable cause

Benefit

Derive a benefit from;
She profited from his vast experience

Benefit

Be beneficial for;
This will do you good

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