benefit
noun
something that is advantageous or good; an advantage.
self-benefit
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a word derived from
benefit.
Example Sentences
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It is not for the benefit of the whole; it is for self-benefit out of fear.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2022
She succumbed to the allure of self-benefit, when succumbing meant a higher chance of being liked.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019
“Some decide to use situations as a platform for their own self-benefit, but I’m not concerned with those people,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2018
As organized, systematic, and absolute frankness, besides self-benefit, would at once, as it were, take the wind out of our opponents' saiils.
From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell
