Beneficial

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  • adjective. Producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous.
  • adjective. Involving the receipt of funds, property, or other benefits, as from an insurance policy or trust.
  • noun. Organisms that are beneficial to a human endeavor, especially insects that are predators of pests.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Contributing to a valuable end; conferring benefit; advantageous; profitable; useful; helpful.
  • Having or conferring the right to the use or benefit, as of property; pertaining or entitled to the usufruet: as, a beneficial owner (which see, below); a beneficial interest in an estate.
  • Pertaining to or having a benefice; beneficed.
  • Kind; generous: as, a “beneficial foe,”
  • noun. A benefice; a church living.
  • noun. In zoology, an animal which benefits man by destroying or checking the increase of animals injurious to him.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
  • adjective. Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit.
  • adjective. King.
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  • adjective. Helpful or good to something or someone.
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  • adjective. promoting or enhancing well-being
  • Word Usage
    ""We're trying to protect what we call the beneficial uses of the water," Cash said."
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