Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous.
- adjective Law Involving the receipt of funds, property, or other benefits, as from an insurance policy or trust.
- noun Organisms that are beneficial to a human endeavor, especially insects that are predators of pests.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Contributing to a valuable end; conferring benefit; advantageous; profitable; useful; helpful.
- Having or conferring the right to the use or benefit, as of property; pertaining or entitled to the usufruet: as, a beneficial owner (which see, below); a beneficial interest in an estate.
- Pertaining to or having a benefice; beneficed.
- Kind; generous: as, a “beneficial foe,”
- noun A benefice; a church living.
- noun In zoology, an animal which benefits man by destroying or checking the increase of animals injurious to him.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by
to . - adjective (Law) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit.
- adjective obsolete King.
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- adjective
Helpful orgood tosomething orsomeone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective promoting or enhancing well-being
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"We're trying to protect what we call the beneficial uses of the water," Cash said.
Local News 2009
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"We're trying to protect what we call the beneficial uses of the water," Cash said.
Local News 2009
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This month, the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program selected its new group of First Mover Fellows: individuals embedded deep within large companies with great capacity to lead the way to achieving fundamental social change -- change that is also strategic and long-term beneficial for the companies involved.
Judith Samuelson: Business Must Lead From the "Mud" to Bring About Big Change Judith Samuelson 2011
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This month, the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program selected its new group of First Mover Fellows: individuals embedded deep within large companies with great capacity to lead the way to achieving fundamental social change -- change that is also strategic and long-term beneficial for the companies involved.
Judith Samuelson: Business Must Lead From the "Mud" to Bring About Big Change Judith Samuelson 2011
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This month, the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program selected its new group of First Mover Fellows: individuals embedded deep within large companies with great capacity to lead the way to achieving fundamental social change -- change that is also strategic and long-term beneficial for the companies involved.
Judith Samuelson: Business Must Lead From the "Mud" to Bring About Big Change Judith Samuelson 2011
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Government spending can be reduced by enormous amounts without serious consequences, and long-term beneficial effect, but in the short term this can result in an adjustment period with recessionary implications.
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This month, the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program selected its new group of First Mover Fellows: individuals embedded deep within large companies with great capacity to lead the way to achieving fundamental social change -- change that is also strategic and long-term beneficial for the companies involved.
Judith Samuelson: Business Must Lead From the "Mud" to Bring About Big Change Judith Samuelson 2011
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Both of these applications of stock creation are finite in beneficial extent.
Stock Options as Tax Deferral, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If it becomes known that the govenment intends to use the banks that pass inspection in beneficial take-overs of the banks that fail (or their assets anyway) the most secure banks will seek out the government so that they could be inspected early.
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Government spending can be reduced by enormous amounts without serious consequences, and long-term beneficial effect, but in the short term this can result in an adjustment period with recessionary implications.
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