Usually means: Advantage or profit gained from something.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word benefit:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. benefit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. benefit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. benefit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. benefit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. benefit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Benefit, benefit: Wordnik
  7. benefit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. benefit: Wiktionary
  9. benefit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. benefit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. benefit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. benefit: Dictionary.com
  13. benefit (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. benefit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Benefit (album), Benefit (social welfare), Benefit (sports), Benefit, The Benefit (film), The Benefit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Benefit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. benefit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. benefit: Rhymezone
  19. benefit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. benefit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. benefit: Free Dictionary
  22. benefit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. benefit: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. benefit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. benefit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. benefit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. benefit: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. BENEFIT: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. benefit: Legal dictionary
  10. benefit: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Benefit: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. benefit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. benefit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BENEFIT: Acronym Finder
  2. benefit: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An advantage; help or aid from something.
noun:  (insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
noun:  An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
noun:  (obsolete) beneficence; liberality
noun:  Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
verb:  (transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
verb:  (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.

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