Benefit vs. Merit
Benefitnoun
An advantage; help or aid from something.
Benefitnoun
(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
Benefitnoun
An event such as a performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
Benefitnoun
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
Benefitverb
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
Benefitverb
(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
Benefitnoun
An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
Benefitnoun
Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
Benefitnoun
A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
Benefitnoun
Beneficence; liberality.
Benefitnoun
Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
Benefitverb
To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
Benefitverb
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
Benefitnoun
financial assistance in time of need
Benefitnoun
something that aids or promotes well-being;
Benefitnoun
a performance to raise money for a charitable cause
Benefitverb
derive a benefit from;
Benefitverb
be beneficial for;
Benefitnoun
an advantage or profit gained from something
Benefitnoun
a payment made by the state or an insurance scheme to someone entitled to receive it
Benefitnoun
an event such as a concert or game that is intended to raise money for a particular player or charity
Benefitverb
receive an advantage; profit
Benefitverb
bring advantage to
Meritnoun
(countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
Meritnoun
(countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
Meritnoun
Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
Meritnoun
The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
Meritnoun
Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
Meritnoun
The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
Meritverb
(transitive) To deserve, to earn.
Meritverb
(intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
Meritverb
To reward.
Meritnoun
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Meritnoun
The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
Meritnoun
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
Meritverb
To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
Meritverb
To reward.
Meritverb
To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Meritnoun
any admirable quality or attribute;
Meritnoun
the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance);
Meritverb
be worthy or deserving;
