benefitting
benefitting 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)
- 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
- 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
Forms of benefitting
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Questions about benefitting
- What is benefitting the present participle and gerund of?
- Benefitting is the present participle and gerund of benefit.
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