Benefit and Duty

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Benefit noun - A thing that helps.

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Duty is an antonym for benefit.

Duty noun - A charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use.

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Benefit is an antonym for duty in responsibility topic.

good	good benefit	good duty
full	full benefit	full duty
particular	particular benefit	particular duty
usual	usual benefit	usual duty
Other adjectives: specific, public, actual, real, main, personal, permanent, major, sole, possible, secondary, extra, primary, double, magical.

A Shield Bearer's primary duty is to the horde, so one of his responsibilities is to kill his charge (with honor, if possible) if this will benefit the horde.

Source: Fantastic Rank System
The Royal Family's duty was to both protect the Triforce and use it responsibly for the benefit of the entire world.

Source: Franchise / The Legend of Zelda
For example, in Call of Duty 4, the only Russians who speak English are doing so for the benefit of the Americans and/or Britons they're talking to; all other flavor speech and combat dialogue from them is untranslated Russian.

Source: Translation Convention

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