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benefitless

benefitless adjective: without benefits.

Adjective

benefitless (not comparable)

  1. Without benefits.
    • In California, my partner and I signed a benefitless domestic partnership registry in 2001, and then, a scant two years later, we were granted a whole lot of separate-but-nearly-equal benefits involving inheritance, medical issues, adoption and state taxation.2008 April 20, Torie Osborn, “The Joy of Marriage Was Ours, for a While”, in New York Times

Origin of benefitless

From benefit + -less.

Questions about benefitless

What does benefitless mean?
Benefitless means without benefits.
What part of speech is benefitless?
Benefitless is an adjective.

Words near benefitless in the dictionary

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

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