| 1. advantage, profit; aid; stipend, pension. be useful; receive benefit; give benefit; profit, be advantageous. benefitbene*fit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. benefited; p. pr. & vb. n. benefitting.] to be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit. i will repent of the good, wherewith i said i would benefit them. xviii. 10.benefit bene*fit, v. i. to gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.benefit bene*fit , n. [oe. benefet, benfeet, bienfet, f. bienfait, fr. l. benefactum; bene well (adv. of bonus good) + factum, p. p. of facere to do. see: bounty, and fact.] |
