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Bonus vs Benefaction - What's the difference?

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Bonus is a related term of benefaction.


As nouns the difference between bonus and benefaction

is that bonus is while benefaction is an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.

bonus

English

Noun

(es)
  • Something extra that is good.
  • An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee.
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  • (uncountable, basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.

    • Derived terms

    * signing bonus

    Verb

  • To pay a bonus, premium

    • Anagrams

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    benefaction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
  • * 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 70:
    • We all feel that sleep is a benefaction to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.
  • An act of charity; almsgiving.