Benefit

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Beneficence; liberality.

II. Benefit ·noun An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

III. Benefit ·noun Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.

IV. Benefit ·noun Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.

V. Benefit ·vi To gain advantage; to make improvement; to Profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

VI. Benefit ·vt To be beneficial to; to do good to; to Advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to Profit.

VII. Benefit ·noun A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

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