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Benefit vs. Use — What's the Difference?

Benefit vs. Use — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Benefit and Use

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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

Use

Take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishing or achieving something; employ
She used her key to open the front door
The poem uses simple language

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

Use

Take or consume (an amount) from a limited supply
We have used all the available funds

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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Use

Describing an action or situation that was done repeatedly or existed for a period in the past
This road used to be a dirt track
I used to give him lifts home

Benefit

Receive an advantage; profit
The areas would benefit from regeneration

Use

Be or become familiar with (someone or something) through experience
She was used to getting what she wanted
He's weird, but you just have to get used to him

Benefit

Something that promotes or enhances well-being; an advantage
The nurse explained the benefits of regular exercise.

Use

One would like or benefit from
I could use another cup of coffee

Benefit

Help; aid
The field trip was of great benefit to the students.

Use

The action of using something or the state of being used for a purpose
Hyper-modern trains are now in use
The software is ideal for use in schools
Theatre owners were charging too much for the use of their venues

Benefit

A payment made by a government agency or insurance company to qualifying persons in time of need
An increase in welfare benefits.

Use

The value or advantage of something
It was no use trying to persuade her
What's the use of crying?

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.

Use

The habitual consumption of a drug
Burgling and dealing financed their heroin use

Benefit

A public entertainment, performance, or social event held to raise funds for a person or cause.

Use

The characteristic ritual and liturgy of a Christian Church or diocese.

Benefit

(Archaic) A kindly deed.

Use

To put into service or employ for a purpose
I used a whisk to beat the eggs. The song uses only three chords.

Benefit

To be helpful or useful to.

Use

To avail oneself of; practice
Use caution.

Benefit

To derive benefit
You will benefit from her good example.

Use

To conduct oneself toward; treat or handle
"the peace offering of a man who once used you unkindly" (Laurence Sterne).

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.

Use

To seek or achieve an end by means of; exploit
Used their highly placed friends to gain access to the president.
Felt he was being used by seekers of favor.

Benefit

(insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.

Use

To take or consume for a purpose
She used her savings to buy a computer.

Benefit

An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.

Use

To partake of, especially as a habit
She rarely uses alcohol.

Benefit

(obsolete) beneficence; liberality

Use

(ys, yst) Used in the past tense followed by to in order to indicate a former state, habitual practice, or custom
Mail service used to be faster.

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.

Use

(Slang) To take an illegal or narcotic drug, especially as a habit.

Benefit

(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.

Use

The act of using something; the application or employment of something for a purpose
With the use of a calculator.
Skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

Benefit

(intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.

Use

The condition or fact of being used
A chair in regular use.

Benefit

An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

Use

The manner of using; usage
Learned the proper use of power tools.

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.

Use

The permission, privilege, or benefit of using something
Gave us the use of their summerhouse.

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.

Use

The power or ability to use something
Lost the use of one arm.

Benefit

Beneficence; liberality.

Use

The need or occasion to use or employ something
I have no use for these old clothes.

Benefit

Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.

Use

The quality of being suitable or adaptable to an end; usefulness
I tried to be of use in the kitchen.

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.

Use

A purpose for which something is used
A tool with several uses.
A pretty bowl, but of what use is it?.

Benefit

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

Use

Gain or advantage; good
There's no use in discussing it. What's the use?.

Benefit

Financial assistance in time of need

Use

Accustomed or usual procedure or practice
"We are but creatures of use and custom" (Mark Twain).

Benefit

Something that aids or promotes well-being;
For the common good

Use

A particular custom or practice
Uses introduced by recent immigrants.

Benefit

A performance to raise money for a charitable cause

Use

Enjoyment of property, as by occupying or employing it.

Benefit

Derive a benefit from;
She profited from his vast experience

Use

The benefit or profit of lands and tenements of which the legal title is vested in another.

Benefit

Be beneficial for;
This will do you good

Use

The arrangement establishing the equitable right to such benefits and profits.

Use

A liturgical form practiced in a particular church, ecclesiastical district, or community.

Use

The act of using.
The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.

Use

(uncountable) The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.

Use

Usefulness, benefit.
What's the use of a law that nobody follows?

Use

A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
This tool has many uses.

Use

Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
I have no further use for these textbooks.

Use

Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.

Use

(archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.

Use

(obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.

Use

(Christianity) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
The Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.

Use

(forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.

Use

To utilize or employ.

Use

(transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
Use this knife to slice the bread.
We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem.

Use

To expend; to consume by employing.
I used the money they allotted me.
We should use up most of the fuel.
She used all the time allotted to complete the test.

Use

(transitive) To exploit.
You never cared about me; you just used me!

Use

(transitive) To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
He uses cocaine. I have never used drugs.

Use

(intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day.

Use

To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
I could use a drink. My car could use a new coat of paint.

Use

To accustom; to habituate. Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.

Use

To become accustomed, to accustom oneself.

Use

To suggest, request, demand or expect that other people use a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
I use they/them pronouns.

Use

To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
I used to get things done.

Use

(dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
To use an animal cruelly

Use

To behave, act, comport oneself.

Use

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.
Books can never teach the use of books.
This Davy serves you for good uses.
When he framedAll things to man's delightful use.

Use

Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.

Use

Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
God made two great lights, great for their useTo man.
'T is use alone that sanctifies expense.

Use

Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
Let later age that noble use envy.
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,Seem to me all the uses of this world!

Use

Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
O Cæsar! these things are beyond all use.

Use

The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use.

Use

The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him.

Use

The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.

Use

A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.

Use

To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.
Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs.
Some other means I have which may be used.

Use

To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.
How wouldst thou use me now?
Cato has used me ill.

Use

To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
Use hospitality one to another.

Use

To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; - employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
I am so used in the fire to blow.
Thou with thy compeers,Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels.
I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the powerWhich thy discretion gives thee, to controlAnd manage all.
To study nature will thy time employ:Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy.

Use

To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; - now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."
They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone.
Fears use to be represented in an imaginary.
Thus we use to say, it is the room that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room.
Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp.

Use

To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; - sometimes followed by of.
He useth every day to a merchant's house.
Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers useOf shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks.

Use

The act of using;
He warned against the use of narcotic drugs
Skilled in the utilization of computers

Use

A particular service;
He put his knowledge to good use
Patrons have their uses

Use

What something is used for;
The function of an auger is to bore holes
Ballet is beautiful but what use is it?

Use

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing;
The consumption of energy has increased steadily

Use

A pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition;
She had a habit twirling the ends of her hair
Long use had hardened him to it

Use

(law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property;
We were given the use of his boat

Use

Exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage;
His manipulation of his friends was scandalous

Use

Put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose;
Use your head!
We only use Spanish at home
I can't make use of this tool
Apply a magnetic field here
This thinking was applied to many projects
How do you utilize this tool?
I apply this rule to get good results
Use the plastic bags to store the food
He doesn't know how to use a computer

Use

Take or consume (regularly or habitually);
She uses drugs rarely

Use

Seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage;
She uses her influential friends to get jobs
The president's wife used her good connections

Use

Use up, consume fully;
The legislature expended its time on school questions

Use

Avail oneself to;
Apply a principle
Practice a religion
Use care when going down the stairs
Use your common sense
Practice non-violent resistance

Use

Habitually do something (use only in the past tense);
She used to call her mother every week but now she calls only occasionally
I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall
They used to vacation in the Bahamas

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