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
