Benefit vs Deed - What's the difference?
benefit | deed |
An advantage, help, sake or aid from something.
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A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
A performance, etc, given to raise funds for some cause.
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
To be or to provide a benefit to.
* Bible, Jer. xviii. 10
To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
An action or act; something that is done.
* Bible, Genesis xliv. 15
A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
* Spenser
* Dryden
Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
(legal) A legal contract showing bond.
(informal) To transfer real property by deed.
As nouns the difference between benefit and deed
is that benefit is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something while deed is an action or act; something that is done.As verbs the difference between benefit and deed
is that benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to while deed is (informal) to transfer real property by deed.benefit
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* beneficial * benefiterSynonyms
* (advantage, help ): foredeal, advantage, aid, assistance, boon, help * (payment ): subsidyAntonyms
* (advantage, help ): disadvantage, encumbrance, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle, detrimentSee also
* lagniappeVerb
- I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Usage notes
* Benefiting and benefited are more common, with benefitting and benefitted being a minor variant especially in the US.Synonyms
* help, battenAntonyms
* malefic * detrimentDerived terms
(terms derived from "benefit") * benefit association * benefit dollar * benefit in kind * benefit of clergy * benefit principle * benefit society * benefit-cost analysis * benefit-cost ratio * benefits coordinator * bennies * cafeteria benefit * child tax benefit * core benefit * cost-benefit analysis * death benefit * elective benefit * employee benefit * equivalent annual benefit * family benefit * friend with benefits * fringe benefit * income-related benefit * injury benefit * maternity benefit * means-tested benefit * nonstatutory fringe benefit * nonwage benefit * private benefit * risk-benefit * sickness benefit * state benefit * stranded benefit * supplementary benefit * survivor benefit * unemployment benefit * variable death benefit *deed
English
Noun
(en noun)- And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?
- knightly deeds
- whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn
- I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed .
- I inherited the deed to the house.
Synonyms
* (action) act, actionDerived terms
* indeedVerb
(en verb)- He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.