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benefiting

benefiting is the present participle and gerund of benefit.

Meaning of benefit

Verb

benefit (third-person singular simple present benefits, present participle benefiting or benefitting, simple past and past participle benefited or benefitted)

  1. (transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
    • […] I will repent of the good; wherewith I saide I would benefite them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 18:10
  2. (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
    • Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 329

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Forms of benefiting

alternative formbenefitting

Questions about benefiting

What is benefiting the present participle and gerund of?
Benefiting is the present participle and gerund of benefit.

Words near benefiting in the dictionary

  1. benefiters
  2. benefites
  3. benefitest
  4. benefiteth
  5. benefitial
  6. benefiting
  7. benefitless
  8. benefits
  9. benefits cliff
  10. benefits cliffs
  11. benefits in kind

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