Benefit vs Convenience - 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.
the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
* Shakespeare
anything that makes for an easier life
* Cowper
* Jonathan Swift
a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
(chiefly, British) a public toilet
As nouns the difference between benefit and convenience
is that benefit is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something while convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient.As a verb benefit
is to be or to provide a benefit 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 *convenience
English
(wikipedia convenience)Noun
(en noun)- Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
- Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
- A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
- Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience .
