(n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
Example Sentences:
(1) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.
(2) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(3) Benefits increase with an individual's initial cholesterol level and decrease with the age at which an intervention is initiated.
(4) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(5) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(6) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(7) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(8) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(9) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.
(10) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(11) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(12) The value of benefit-risk, benefit-cost, and cost-effectiveness analyses lies not in providing the definitive basis for a decision on vaccine use or evaluation.
(13) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(14) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
(15) These data suggest that although the major effect of ALP is on the inhibition of the generation of the autoimmune response there appeared to be some therapeutic benefit at a later stage of acute disease.
(16) Acetylsalicylic acid has been shown to reduce significantly stroke, death and stroke-related death in men, with no detectable benefit for women.
(17) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
(18) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
(19) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
(20) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
Godsend
Definition:
(n.) Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.
Example Sentences:
(1) The trend has grown apace since Tarantino's double Bill proved a financial godsend for Miramax, while audience resistance has dwindled to nothing.
(2) In terms of building a database, it's a godsend, and it could safeguard not just the Valley of the Kings, but all of Egypt's heritage sites."
(3) When you are confronted with a mass of material on learning disability, easy-read versions can be a godsend.
(4) For someone who loves art but to whom the art world sounds like babbling in an invented language, this is godsend.
(5) "Whenever the Democratic party nominates a Catholic it is a godsend, because otherwise the abortion issue is secondary," said Father Richard McBrien, a theologian at Notre Dame University.
(6) Going through puberty and having a counter-message to all the crap about women's bodies and sexuality that I was beginning to be aware of was an absolute godsend.
(7) Vladimir Putin’s unexpected ascent to power in 2000 was, for many, a godsend.
(8) Gilmore says e-cigarettes could be seen as "a godsend for the tobacco industry.
(9) Whether you view this as a vindication of basic rights to control our own personal data online, or a worrying trend for the public record online, it is an undoubted godsend to revenge porn victims.
(10) They used the Framingham Heart Study – a longitudinal study of the population of a small Massachusetts town near Boston which was started in 1948 to investigate risk for heart disease but has since become a godsend for social research because of the wealth of information that continues to be collected from generation after generation of residents.
(11) But to the rows of women, cuddling their babies, this place was a godsend.
(12) For people such as Nibal Shkirm, a Syrian teacher from Aleppo, who landed in Lesbos with her four children and husband last week, the groups have been a godsend.
(13) Japanese researchers have shown that augmented reality can trick people into feeling full by making food on the plate appear larger than it is (a godsend to dieters).
(14) The QE injection was a godsend to the eurozone, which has so far – but perhaps not for much longer – scorned the idea of turning on the electronic printing presses.
(15) Cloning shows up in movies as varied as The Boys From Brazil, Sleeper, Multiplicity, Gattaca, Godsend and Twins.
(16) But the SRA was a godsend for Jim Steer and his dreams of speed.
(17) For Edinburgh zoo the pandas are a godsend after the most difficult period in its 102-year history.
(18) Supplementing my weekly food shop, which came in at around £10 a week, with five items handed out from the food bank, was a godsend.
(19) This similarity may prove to be a godsend for astronomers.
(20) In the end, though, her career turned out to be a godsend.