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beneficiary

[ ben-uh-fish-ee-er-ee, -fish-uh-ree ]

noun

, plural ben·e·fi·ci·ar·ies.
  1. a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
  2. a person designated as the recipient of funds or other property under a will, trust, insurance policy, etc.
  3. Ecclesiastical. the holder of a benefice.


beneficiary

/ ˌbɛnɪˈfɪʃərɪ /

noun

  1. a person who gains or benefits in some way from something
  2. law a person entitled to receive funds or other property under a trust, will, or insurance policy
  3. the holder of an ecclesiastical or other benefice
  4. a person who receives government assistance

    social security beneficiary



adjective

  1. of or relating to a benefice or the holder of a benefice

beneficiary

  1. The recipient of funds, property, or other benefits from an insurance policy, will, trust, or other settlement.


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Other Words From

  • preben·e·fici·ary noun plural prebeneficiaries

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Word History and Origins

Origin of beneficiary1

First recorded in 1605–15; from Latin beneficiārius, from benefici(um) benefice + -ārius -ary

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Example Sentences

Likewise, the beneficiary of IBM’s opening, Microsoft, won an appeal overturning an order to break up the company, but still backed down enough to allow the open Internet to flourish and new players to emerge, like Google.

From Fortune

As this week’s IAB data suggested, Google and Facebook are likely to be the direct beneficiaries of this increased digital ad spending.

The industry’s primary beneficiaries are itself and its many ancillary participants, including the media.

According to the report, paid search and social media are the biggest beneficiaries of the game of budgetary musical chairs.

Zoom has been one of the clearest beneficiaries of the coronavirus pandemic, with businesses and educational institutions turning to the service to work and teach remotely.

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“The sole beneficiary of foreign interference in Syria is the Assad regime,” the group argued.

McDonnell was poised to be the beneficiary of a bidding war among the biggest law firms.

In 2014, Facebook has become an avatar, promoter, and beneficiary of the social media-related bubble.

A great beneficiary of the last three, to the tune of $2 billion, was Blackwater.

Clinton knows something about comebacks, and if Obama can recover, Hillary is the beneficiary.

And if the contract is with a person other than the insured as beneficiary, it would be void on the ground of mistake.

In some states the reinsuring company becomes liable to an action by the beneficiary named in the original policy.

Man, in his turn, will be a beneficiary of this new womanliness as he has been the ready victim of the old-womanishness.

For the others, they had understood well enough which of their number was the chief beneficiary.

"Choose something for the kids," Norah Lee had advised when they had talked of the beneficiary.

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