Conduce vs Benefit - What's the difference?
conduce | benefit |
To contribute or lead to a specific result.
* Macaulay
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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.
As verbs the difference between conduce and benefit
is that conduce is to contribute or lead to a specific result while benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to.As a noun benefit is
an advantage, help, sake or aid from something.conduce
English
Verb
(conduc)- He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both.
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- There was thus a strong tendency to assume that obedience to God's commandments could conduce to prosperity and safety.
- Anecdotes aside, many historians are skeptical that trade, as a general rule, conduces to peace.
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.