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Wait_on vs Benefit - What's the difference?

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Wait_on is a related term of benefit.


As verbs the difference between wait_on and benefit

is that wait_on is (colloquial) to wait for an event while benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to.

As a noun benefit is

an advantage, help, sake or aid from something.

wait_on

English

Verb

  • (colloquial) To wait for an event.
    • I'm waiting on the light to change.
  • To wait for a person to do something.
    • I'm waiting on you before we can leave.
  • To serve someone.
    • Is someone waiting on you yet?
  • * Shakespeare
    • I must wait on myself, must I?
  • To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony.
  • To follow, as a consequence; to await.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • that ruin that waits on such a supine temper
  • To attend to; to perform.
  • * Bible, Numbers iii. 10
    • Aaron and his sons shall wait on their priest's office.
  • To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; said of a hawk.
    • The airplane had to wait on the runway for a few minutes before it could take off.

    Related terms

    * wait * wait on hand and foot

    benefit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An advantage, help, sake or aid from something.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit , Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • 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

    • 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 *

    Related terms

    (terms related to "benefit") * benefactor * beneficence * beneficent * beneficiary