Benefit
Benefit verb - To provide with something useful or desirable.
Usage example: his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience
How words are described
| good | good benefit | good harm |
| direct | direct benefit | direct harm |
| considerable | considerable benefit | considerable harm |
| actual | actual benefit | actual harm |
| Other adjectives: real, massive, great, little, potential, personal, permanent, major, immediate, general, possible, apparent, less, extra, significant, greater, maximum, financial, magical, long-term, unintended. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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There are also some cards that are balanced this way: they give you a benefit or harm your opponent, but also do the same thing to every other player.
Source: Equivalent Exchange - He rarely thinks his actions through, making choices that cause great harm only because they benefit, or could potentially benefit him in the short term.
Source: Chaotic Neutral -
Both of them have strong feelings about how science should be used to benefit people, not to harm or oppress them.
Source: Visual Novel / Code:Realize
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