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Welfare vs Benefit – What’s the difference?

Welfare vs Benefit - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between welfare and benefit is that welfare is (uncountable) health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect while benefit is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something. As a verb benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to.

welfare

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
  • * , chapter=19
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp
    , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare . Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

  • (uncountable, chiefly, US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (abbreviated form of Welfare assistance ).
  • Synonyms

    * income support, public assistance, social security

    Antonyms

    * evilfare
    * illfare
    * woefare
    * wofare

    See also

    *
    *
    —-

    benefit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • An advantage, help, sake or aid from something.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
    , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit , Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}

  • A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
  • A performance, etc, given to raise funds for some cause.
  • (obsolete) beneficence; liberality
  • Derived terms

    * beneficial
    * benefiter

    Synonyms

    * (advantage, help ): foredeal, advantage, aid, assistance, boon, help
    * (payment ): subsidy

    Antonyms

    * (advantage, help ): disadvantage, encumbrance, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle, detriment

    See also

    * lagniappe

    Verb

  • To be or to provide a benefit to.
  • * Bible, Jer. xviii. 10
  • I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
  • To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
  • Usage notes

    * Benefiting and benefited are more common, with benefitting and benefitted being a minor variant especially in the US.

    Synonyms

    * help, batten

    Antonyms

    * malefic
    * detriment

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from “benefit”)
    * benefit association
    * benefit dollar
    * benefit in kind
    * benefit of clergy
    * benefit principle
    * benefit society
    * benefit-cost analysis
    * benefit-cost ratio
    * benefits coordinator
    * bennies
    * cafeteria benefit
    * child tax benefit
    * core benefit
    * cost-benefit analysis
    * death benefit
    * elective benefit
    * employee benefit
    * equivalent annual benefit
    * family benefit
    * friend with benefits
    * fringe benefit
    * income-related benefit
    * injury benefit
    * maternity benefit
    * means-tested benefit
    * nonstatutory fringe benefit
    * nonwage benefit
    * private benefit
    * risk-benefit
    * sickness benefit
    * state benefit
    * stranded benefit
    * supplementary benefit
    * survivor benefit
    * unemployment benefit
    * variable death benefit
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