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beneficiating

beneficiating is the present participle and gerund of beneficiate.

Meaning of beneficiate

Verb

beneficiate (third-person singular simple present beneficiates, present participle beneficiating, simple past and past participle beneficiated)

  1. (dated) To reduce (ores or other raw materials)
    • Also, Carrier (1979) has pointed out that it may be more efficient to beneficiate raw materials at the pit site so that only useful soil components need be transported some distance to the LMF.1980, “Appendix 5D”, in Robert A. Freitas, William P. Gilbreath, editors, Advanced Automation for Space Missions

Questions about beneficiating

What is beneficiating the present participle and gerund of?
Beneficiating is the present participle and gerund of beneficiate.

Words near beneficiating in the dictionary

  1. beneficiaryship
  2. beneficiaryships
  3. beneficiate
  4. beneficiated
  5. beneficiates
  6. beneficiating
  7. beneficiation
  8. beneficiations
  9. beneficience
  10. beneficient
  11. beneficing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beneficiating (page history and authors); beneficiate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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