Benefit vs Usage - What's the difference?
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As a noun benefit is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something. As a verb benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to. As an adjective usage is used.
benefit English
Noun
( en noun)
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
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Derived terms
* beneficial
* benefiter
Synonyms
* (advantage, help ): foredeal, advantage, aid, assistance, boon, help
* (payment ): subsidy
Antonyms
* (advantage, help ): disadvantage, encumbrance, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle, detriment
See also
* lagniappe
Verb
To be or to provide a benefit to.
* Bible, Jer. xviii. 10
- I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
Usage notes
* Benefiting and benefited are more common, with benefitting and benefitted being a minor variant especially in the US.
Synonyms
* help, batten
Antonyms
* malefic
* detriment
Derived 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
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Related terms
(terms related to "benefit")
* benefactor
* beneficence
* beneficent
* beneficiary
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usage Noun
( en noun)
The manner or the amount of using; use
Habit or accepted practice
(lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
# Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
# Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.
Derived terms
* usage dictionary
* usage guide
* usage label
* usage lexicography
* usage note
* usage panel
References
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* Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.
Anagrams
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