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benefit
English
Alternative forms
- benefite (obsolete)
Etymology
From Late Middle English benefytt, benefett, alteration (due to Latin bene-) of benfet, bienfet, bienfait (“good or noble deed”), from Anglo-Norman benfet (“well-done”), Middle French bienfait, from Old French bienfet, bienfait (“foredeal, favour”), from past participle of bienfaire (“to do good, do well”), from bien (“well”) + faire (“to do”), modelled after Latin benefactum (“good deed”). More at benefactor.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?n.?.f?t/
- (US) enPR: b?n'?f?t, IPA(key): /?b?n.?.f?t/
Noun
benefit (countable and uncountable, plural benefits)
- An advantage; help or aid from something.
- (insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
- An event such as a performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
- (obsolete) beneficence; liberality
- c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
- What was it with such violence he
On the wild benefit of nature live took Happier than we
- What was it with such violence he
- c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
- Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
Synonyms
- (advantage, help): foredeal, advantage, aid, assistance, boon, help
- (payment): subsidy
Antonyms
- (advantage, help): harm, disadvantage, encumbrance, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle, detriment
Derived terms
- beneficial
- benefiter
- benifit (a misspelling)
Translations
See also
- lagniappe
Verb
benefit (third-person singular simple present benefits, present participle benefiting or benefitting, simple past and past participle benefited or benefitted)
- (transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
- (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
Usage notes
- Benefiting and benefited are more common, with benefitting and benefitted being minor variants, especially in the US.
Synonyms
- help, batten, behoove
Antonyms
- malefic
- detriment
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English benefit.
Noun
benefit m (invariable)
- benefit, advantage
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?be.ne.fit/, [?b?n?f?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?be.ne.fit/, [?b??n?fit?]
Verb
benefit
- third-person singular present passive indicative of benefaci?
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revenue
English
Etymology
Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French [Term?] (“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir (“come back”) (=modern French), from Latin revenire (“to return, come back”), from re- (“back”) +? venire (“to come”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???v?nju?/
- (General American) enPR: r?v??-n(y)o?o?, IPA(key): /???v??n(j)u/
- Hyphenation (UK): rev?en?ue, (US): rev?e?nue, rev?enue
Noun
revenue (countable and uncountable, plural revenues)
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The income returned by an investment.
- The total income received from a given source.
- All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
- (accounting) The total sales; turnover.
- (accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
- (figuratively) A return; something paid back.
- a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
- What, no revenue of praise for him who is our gracious Lord and King! He doth not exact from us any servile labor, but simply saith, “Who so offereth praise glorifieth me.”
- a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
Synonyms
- (accounting): net sales, turnover
Derived terms
- non-revenue, nonrevenue
- revenuer
- revenue stamp
- revenue cutter
Translations
Verb
revenue (third-person singular simple present revenues, present participle revenuing, simple past and past participle revenued)
- (intransitive) To generate revenue.
- (transitive) To supply with revenue.
Anagrams
- unreeve
French
Etymology
From the verb revenir.
Noun
revenue f (plural revenues)
- a (physical) return; arrival
- (hunting) the action of game leaving the forest to graze
Verb
revenue f
- feminine singular of the past participle of revenir
Further reading
- “revenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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