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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
benefits

"financial support (especially for medical expenses) to which one is entitled through employment or membership," 1895, plural of benefit (n.).

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benefits

n. (plural of benefit English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: benefit)

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Benefits (How I Met Your Mother)

"Benefits" is the 12th episode in the fourth season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 76th overall. It originally aired on January 12, 2009.

Usage examples of "benefits".

This spring, about 5,500 indigent Floridians will be purposely shut out of a program that offers job skills and child-care benefits instead of straight welfare.

Scientists argue that the benefits of brain experiments will far outweigh concerns for the privacy and dignity of the deceased.

The trouble with the Metromover is that it benefits the downtown lunch crowd more than the people who truly need mass transit.

Recently the Fanjuls discovered the benefits of minority set-aside programs.

Wise marine management benefits not only the commercial and sportfishing industries, but every taxpayer, too.

The benefits have been felt from the Panhandle to the Keys, wherever green space and wildlife habitat have been spared from destruction.

He began, perhaps obviously, talking of the personal benefits from his Europol posting.

Throughout his childhood and adolescence, Tom had been fascinated by how his father, a political activist as well as a judge, had used that power not only to acquire material benefits but to control others.

They encouraged him to suppose that their compatriots were no less loyal and grateful to Rome for the benefits of civilization than they themselves were.

His favourite one now was to examine judicially the wills of men who had just died and had left him no money: he would then give evidence of the benefits that the testators had received from him and declare that they had been either ungrateful or of unsound mind at the time of drawing their wills and that he preferred to think that they had been of unsound mind.

There was nothing he could do but to return the third set of forms and wait for the state to give him the benefits it had promised.

It requires only you and your mind and the desire to tap it for the benefits you seek.

Individuals in groups formed for these purposes receive all the benefits of Total Mind Power and have the added benefit of meeting and socializing with their friends.

Edmund Jacobson who in the 1930s described the mental benefits of relaxation techniques.

Steps One, Two and Three is of primary importance and if any of these techniques are left out, the benefits will not be obtained.