Benefit vs Vantage - What's the difference?
benefit | vantage |
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 advantage.
A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
* William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard the Second ActV, scene III:
(dated, tennis) (score after deuce)
(obsolete) To profit; to aid.
As nouns the difference between benefit and vantage
is that benefit is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something while vantage is an advantage.As verbs the difference between benefit and vantage
is that benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to while vantage is (obsolete|transitive) to profit; to aid.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 *vantage
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Alternative forms
* vauntage (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
Verb
(vantag)- (Spenser)