Benefit
Benefit noun - Something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing.
Usage example: the meal service is a great benefit to invalids and the elderly
Gift is a synonym for benefit in grant topic. In some cases you can use "Gift" instead a noun "Benefit", when it comes to topics like donation.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human benefit | human gift |
| good | good benefit | good gift |
| special | special benefit | special gift |
| best | best benefit | best gift |
| Other adjectives: particular, similar, normal, specific, small, actual, real, great, huge, little, personal, possible, unexpected, significant, greater, magical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- First she unwraps just a tiny gift, which is a salt shaker, but she ends up opening all of them, and doesn't manage to wrap them again for Chandler's benefit.
Source: Present Peeking - The usual exception to this trope is Christmas gifts for children; the shredding of wrapping on the way to getting to the gift is expected and even Hollywood can't ignore that for its own benefit.
Source: Hollywood Giftwrap - It's implied that this form is actually a "benefit" of being the highest-ranking servant of the Things Beneath the Showgrounds... and that shortly after inheriting control over the circus, Kurt decided to demonstrate his newfound gift to his father.
Source: One Winged Angel / Literature
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