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benefit noun 1 something good gained or received. 2 advantage or sake • for your benefit. 3 (often benefits) a payment made by a government or company insurance scheme, usually to someone who is ill or out of work • social security benefit. 4 a concert, match, performance at a theatre, etc from which the profits are given to a particular cause, person or group of people in need. verb (benefited, benefiting; US also benefitted, benefitting) 1 intrans (especially benefit from or by something) to gain an advantage or receive something good from it or as a result of it. 2 to do good to someone. give someone the benefit of the doubt in a case where some doubt remains: to assume that they are telling the truth, or are innocent, because there is not enough evidence to be certain that they are not.
ETYMOLOGY: 14c: from French benfet, from Latin benefactum good deed.