Benefit vs Proceed - What's the difference?
benefit | proceed |
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.
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.
To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.
To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
* John Locke
To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
* Shakespeare
To have application or effect; to operate.
* Ayliffe
To begin and carry on a legal process. (rfex)
As verbs the difference between benefit and proceed
is that benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to while proceed is to move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.As a noun benefit
is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something.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 *proceed
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- to proceed on a journey.
- To proceed with a story or argument.
- Light proceeds from the sun.
- he that proceeds upon other Principles in his Enquiry
- He will, after his sour fashion, tell you / What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
- This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.
