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adjective

Beneficial adj.

Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; followed by to. "The war which would have been most beneficial to us."

(Law) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.

King. (Obs.) "A beneficial foe."

Synonyms: See Advantage.

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Etymology of 'Beneficial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... artistic drama. The municipal theatre is not worth fighting for, unless there is a reasonable probability that its establishment will benefit dramatic art, promote the knowledge of dramatic literature, and draw from the literary drama and confer on the public the largest beneficial influence which the literary drama ...

— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee

... began failing. As I had already become convinced that it was necessary that I should again go on the road, I decided to buy a pair of horses and carriage and travel with them, and let my wife accompany me. Our physician said nothing could be more beneficial to her ...

— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston

... training in wise laws, and wise laws in these very tumults which many would thoughtlessly condemn. For he who looks well to the results of these tumults will find that they did not lead to banishments, nor to violence hurtful to the common good, but to laws and ordinances beneficial to the public liberty. And should any object that the behaviour of the Romans was extravagant and outrageous; that for the assembled people to be heard shouting against the senate, the senate against the people; for the ...

— Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius • Niccolo Machiavelli

... think of, and some inconveniences to submit to. The long walks to it were unpleasant in stormy weather, and occasionally we were compelled to lose a day or two from this cause. But then the out-door exercise in fine weather was beneficial to health, and we were spared the public mortification of carrying great bundles of made-up clothing through the streets: for, let a sewing-girl feel as independent as she may, she does not covet the being everywhere known as belonging to that class of workers. Her ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various

... benefits of the Athletic Contest are lost under Scientific Management. The only restrictions placed are that the men shall not be grouped according to any distinction that would cause hatred or ill feeling, that the results shall be ultimately beneficial to the workers themselves, and that all high scores shall ...

— The Psychology of Management - The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and - Installing Methods of Least Waste • L. M. Gilbreth

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