Benefit vs Margin - What's the difference?
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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.
(typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
The edge or border of any flat surface.
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(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
* 1999 , Pierre François, ''Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall,
A difference between results, characteristics, scores.
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, title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea
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A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
As nouns the difference between benefit and margin
is that benefit is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something while margin is (typography) the edge of the paper that remains blank.As verbs the difference between benefit and margin
is that benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to while margin is to add a to.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 *margin
English
(wikipedia margin)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
- The lobule margins , furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
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- As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.
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- margin of error