benefit

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

ben·e·fit (bĕnʹə-fĭt)n.
1.
a. Something that promotes or enhances well-being; an advantage:
The field trip was of great benefit to the students.
b. Help; aid.
2. A payment made or an entitlement available in accordance with a wage agreement, an insurance policy, or a public assistance program.
3. A public entertainment, performance, or social event held to raise funds for a person or cause.
4. Archaic. A kindly deed.v. ben·e·fit·ed, also ben·e·fit·ted ben·e·fit·ing, ben·e·fit·ting ben·e·fits, ben·e·fitsv. tr.
To be helpful or useful to.v. intr.
To derive benefit:
You will benefit from her good example.Idiom:benefit of the doubt
A favorable judgment granted in the absence of full evidence. [Middle English, from Old French bienfait, good deed, from Latin benefactum, from benefacere, to do a service. See benefaction.] 
Synonyms: benefit, capitalize, profit
These verbs mean to derive advantage from something: benefited from the stock split; capitalized on her adversary's blunder; profiting from experience.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  welfare, do good, profit, gain