Benefit vs. Privilege — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Benefit and Privilege
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Benefit
An advantage or profit gained from something
Enjoy the benefits of being a member
The changes are of benefit to commerce
Privilege
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
Education is a right, not a privilege
He has been accustomed all his life to wealth and privilege
Benefit
A payment made by the state or an insurance scheme to someone entitled to receive it
Part-time jobs supplemented by means-tested benefits
Families on benefit
Privilege
Grant a privilege or privileges to
English inheritance law privileged the eldest son
Benefit
An event such as a concert or game that is intended to raise money for a particular player or charity
A benefit gig
The social season was highlighted by debutante balls and charity benefits
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Privilege
A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
Benefit
Receive an advantage; profit
The areas would benefit from regeneration
Privilege
Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
Benefit
Something that promotes or enhances well-being; an advantage
The nurse explained the benefits of regular exercise.
Privilege
The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity
A society based on privilege.
Benefit
Help; aid
The field trip was of great benefit to the students.
Privilege
Protection from being forced to disclose confidential communications in certain relationships, as between attorney and client, physician and patient, or priest and confessor.
Benefit
A payment made by a government agency or insurance company to qualifying persons in time of need
An increase in welfare benefits.
Privilege
Protection from being sued for libel or slander for making otherwise actionable statements in a context or forum where open and candid expression is deemed desirable for reasons of public policy.
Benefit
A form of compensation, such as paid vacation time, subsidized health insurance, or a pension, provided to employees in addition to wages or salary as part of an employment arrangement. Also called fringe benefit.
Privilege
An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle.
Benefit
A public entertainment, performance, or social event held to raise funds for a person or cause.
Privilege
To grant a privilege to.
Benefit
(Archaic) A kindly deed.
Privilege
To free or exempt.
Benefit
To be helpful or useful to.
Privilege
To assign greater importance or priority to
“A Harvard Law grad who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, he is steeped in a tradition that privileges the Bill of Rights over the crude or arbitrary exercise of power” (Evan Thomas).
Benefit
To derive benefit
You will benefit from her good example.
Privilege
An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
Benefit
An advantage; help or aid from something.
She can't read, so the voice recording was made for her benefit.
Exposure to cutting-edge technologies is one of the benefits of the job.
Privilege
(countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.
All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege?
Benefit
(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
Privilege
An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
Benefit
An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
Privilege
(uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.
Benefit
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
Privilege
A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
Benefit
Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
The whole scene was staged for his benefit, and it completely fooled him.
Since my wife is Canadian, whenever we have dinner with my family, they keep bringing up anything they've heard about Canada lately for her benefit.
Privilege
A stock market option.
Benefit
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
Privilege
(legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege.
Benefit
(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
Privilege
(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.
Benefit
An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
Privilege
(archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
To privilege representatives from arrest
Benefit
Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
Men have no right to what is not for their benefit.
Privilege
(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Benefit
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.
Privilege
A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman.
The privilege birthright was a double portion.
A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties.
Benefit
Beneficence; liberality.
Privilege
See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
Benefit
Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
Privilege
To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
To privilege dishonor in thy name.
Benefit
To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Privilege
To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
He took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands.
Benefit
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
Privilege
A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
Benefit
Financial assistance in time of need
Privilege
A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right);
Suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males
Benefit
Something that aids or promotes well-being;
For the common good
Privilege
(law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
Benefit
A performance to raise money for a charitable cause
Privilege
Bestow a privilege upon
Benefit
Derive a benefit from;
She profited from his vast experience
Benefit
Be beneficial for;
This will do you good
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