noun beneficence; liberality.
2. benefit ·noun an act of kindness; a favor conferred.
3. benefit ·noun natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
4. benefit ·noun whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
5. benefit ·vi to gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
6. benefit ·vt to be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
7. benefit ·noun a theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.