What's the difference between beneficiary and feudal?

Beneficiary


Definition:

  • (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
  • (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.
  • (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
  • (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
  • (2) However, rates were generally higher than those of Kaiser-Permanente (northern California) enrollees, despite the high use of hospital care by beneficiaries outside of the Military System.
  • (3) When you design something for a “beneficiary”, it may seem okay not to involve them centrally in the process.
  • (4) Otherwise, the far right will be the main beneficiary.
  • (5) The beneficiaries in students families had better, attendance and immunizational coverage, more weight gain and less episodes of illness.
  • (6) In the case of a No vote, they will be the big beneficiary.” Formed only seven years ago, Five Star has become one of Europe’s biggest populist organisations and is now the main opposition in Italy.
  • (7) Make no mistake about who the chief beneficiaries are.
  • (8) So, if you care about the service and the beneficiaries, you’ll probably have to put the hours in.
  • (9) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
  • (10) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
  • (11) Gingrich, the latest beneficiary of Adelson's goodwill, suddenly has an outside chance of becoming president.
  • (12) Our aim must be to ensure by our investment that hard working families are the beneficiaries of this era of global economic change.
  • (13) Putin giving money to a company when the beneficiary is his child’s partner is a classic conflict of interest.
  • (14) The insider added that News International is said to be particularly keen to rapidly launch an assault on the Sunday Mirror – one of the biggest beneficiaries of the News of the World's closure – on the basis that the longer it is out of the Sunday market, the more difficult it will be to break readers' loyalty to other titles.
  • (15) While we have long moved past those days, what has survived in the world of global development is the treatment of clients as “beneficiaries”, not consumers.
  • (16) Sheffield, the beneficiary of a promised South Yorkshire stop, may have to make do with a station on the fringes at the Meadowhall shopping centre.
  • (17) Norton told Guardian Australia the beneficiaries of the existing arrangement were “the children of educated people”.
  • (18) In the short run, the use of community-based mental health treatment programs need not be affected by enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries in prepaid plans, providing that Medicaid program administrators take steps to minimize the disruption of ongoing treatment, offer beneficiaries a choice among prepaid plans, and encourage community treatment programs to contract with plans to serve beneficiaries.
  • (19) This paper examines ambulatory utilization in a preferred provider organization (PPO) for Uniformed Services beneficiaries at Pacific Medical Center (PMC) in Seattle.
  • (20) However, the Co-op has also said that, even if it does manage to talk to them, it cannot ask for the money back if the beneficiary says they were expecting the money and it is theirs.

Feudal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.
  • (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ITV retained its quasi-feudal structure until the 1990s.
  • (2) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
  • (3) "The feudals have enslaved the people for generations," he says.
  • (4) It comes down to politics, where community-based efforts go to waste against the even more historic practice of feudalism.
  • (5) Suu Kyi's relationship with the generals has reportedly turned sour again In her tireless efforts to secure cooperation from the military, Suu Kyi has repeatedly expressed her appreciation, respect and “genuine” affection for the Tatmadaw (feudal military), which her father founded under Japan’s fascist patronage in December 1942, much to the dismay of many minorities who have borne the brunt of the organisation’s ruthless policies.
  • (6) The peasantry had unilaterally ceased paying feudal taxes.
  • (7) According to a recent report from the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, the feudal land ownership system is a brick wall for all development efforts – whether aimed at improving infrastructure, improved water resource management or community mobilisation.
  • (8) Aristegui’s team not only uncovered the fact that the president’s wife and his finance minister, [Luis] Videgaray, had received a couple of luxurious residences from a big construction conglomerate that was doing business with the federal government; they also exposed a network of corruption, a radiography of how the president is managing the country’s finances as if he was a feudal lord, as if laws, international treaties and transparency did not exist.
  • (9) (1993), Frank questioned the usefulness of terms such as capitalism, feudalism or socialism, arguing that "too many big patterns in world history appear to transcend or persist despite all apparent alterations in the mode of production".
  • (10) By taking art out of the gallery and sticking it up, unannounced, in the street, he fostered the idea that he was returning art to the people, a graphic Robin Hood set against the feudal grip of Mayfair's Cork Street.
  • (11) In rural areas, plantation owners have a grip on local politics in the northeast that is little short of feudal, while the soy and cattle barons of the interior push landless peasants and Indian communities further to the margins.
  • (12) While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror.
  • (13) But before Game of Thrones was even a series, House Targaryen was toppled by a cabal of sweaty northern feudal lords, headed, naturally, by Mark Addy and Sean Bean.
  • (14) At the height of the floods, Dasti says, some feudals used their influence to divert the floodwaters away from selected lands, thereby inundating the poor.
  • (15) Having begun as a castle town at the end of the 1500s under the rule of the feudal warlord Mori Terumoto, by the end of the 19 th century it served as a regional garrison for the Imperial Japanese Army; as a major manufacturing centre, it helped fuel the Japanese empire’s military efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
  • (16) In his spare time, he is tweeting and blogging with fury, helping to spread his message that it is time to "destroy the feudal system of power" that has occupied the Kremlin.
  • (17) (“He took the cork out and spilled a little on the wooden plank of the pier; it hissed like steam.”) Only later in the last century did the crime begin to be associated with the developing rather than the developed rather than the developed world, as a function of male oppression and feudalism, rather than the green-eyed cruelty of richer societies.
  • (18) "We will destroy this feudal system that robs all of you," he said.
  • (19) "Now we want the state to be a service to the people, not some kind of feudal lord.
  • (20) They know that the power structure in Mexico is feudal and even if they do their best efforts, they face everyday the challenges of our history.

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