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benefits

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɛn.ɪ.fɪts//
  • Canada//ˈbɛn.ɪˌfɪts//
  • Canada//ˈbɛn.əˌfɪts//
  • Australia//ˈben.ə.fɪts//
  • New Zealand//ˈben.ə.fəts//

public assistance; welfare.

noun

  1. 1

    public assistance; welfare.

    Her dad had been on benefits for years so she never ever received pocket money. When she walked to school she would scour the pavements for coins.

  2. 2

    Also a form of benefitplural of benefit

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of benefitthird-person singular simple present indicative of benefit

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).