• (America) enPR: bĕn'əfĭt, IPA: /ˈbɛn.ə.fɪt/

benefit

1. An advantage; help or aid from something.

   It was for her benefit.   His benefit was free beer.

2. (insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
3. An event such as a performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
4. (obsolete) beneficence; liberality

• (advantage, help) foredeal, advantage, aid, assistance, boon, help
• (payment) subsidy

• (advantage, help) harm, disadvantage, encumbrance, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle, detriment

• French: avantage, bénéfice
• German: Vorteil
• Italian: beneficio
• Portuguese: benefício
• Russian: преиму́щество
• Spanish: beneficio, ventaja

• French: bénéfice
• German: Nutzen
• Italian: beneficio
• Russian: вы́года
• Spanish: beneficio

• French: subvention
• German: Leistung
• Portuguese: pagamento, subsídio
• Russian: посо́бие
• Spanish: prestación

• German: Benefizkonzert, Benefizveranstaltung
• Portuguese: beneficente, evento beneficente
• Russian: бенефи́с
• Spanish: beneficio

benefit (benefits, present participle benefiting; past benefited, past participle benefited)

1. (transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Jeremiah 18:10 ↗:

     I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

2. (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.

• help, batten, behoove

• malefic
• detriment

• German: von Vorteil sein
• Italian: beneficiare
• Portuguese: beneficiar
• Spanish: beneficiar

• French: profiter
• German: profitieren
• Italian: beneficiare, sfruttare, usufruire, godere, approfittare, servirsi
• Portuguese: beneficiar-se de
• Spanish: beneficiar