beneficialben‧e‧fi‧cial /ˌbenɪˈfɪʃəl◂/ ●●○ AWL adjective 
a drug that has a beneficial effect on the immune systembeneficial to/for Cycling is highly beneficial to health and the environment. an arrangement that is mutually beneficial (=it has advantages for everyone who is involved)—beneficially adverb
WORD ORIGINbeneficial
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin beneficium; ➔ BENEFICEEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- beneficial changes
- Recent studies show that moderate amounts of alcohol are beneficial to health.
- The occasional glass of wine is both enjoyable and beneficial.
- The relationship between the two companies has been mutually beneficial.
- There is no evidence that the diet pills have any beneficial effect on weight loss.
- This treatment can be very beneficial, especially to young children.
- Alcohol taken in moderation can be beneficial to health.
- Although the formal agenda item is always very useful, perhaps even more beneficial is the process of sharing.
- But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance.
- Some of those diets were the result of a mutually beneficial alliance between physicians and food producers.
- The twenty-five articles of the decree were far-reaching and generally beneficial.
- To complete this traditional picture, it has to be repeated that production was always held to be beneficial.
Longman Language Activatorsomething that makes or keeps you healthy
· Taking plenty of exercise can be both healthy and enjoyable.· I'm trying to eat a healthier diet now, with less fat and sugar.· a healthy outdoor life
if something is good for you or is good for your health , it makes you more healthy or stops you getting ill: · Citrus fruits such as oranges and lemons are very good for you.· I can't see how gazing at a crystal is in any way good for your health.· I love junkfood but I know it's not good for me.
if something does you good , it makes you feel better physically or emotionally, especially when you have not been feeling well: · I thought that a vacation would do me good.· Let's ask Jean to come tonight.. It might do her good to meet some new people.do somebody the world of good (=make you feel a lot better): · What you need is a good night out - it'd do you the world of good!
food that is wholesome helps you stay healthy because it has nothing unhealthy added to it and is usually prepared very simply: · 'Rosie's Pantry' is a small restaurant that serves good wholesome food.· Quality controllers ensure that all our products are safe, wholesome, and of good quality.
food that is nutritious is full of natural substances that your body needs to stay healthy or to grow properly: · Brown bread is more nutritious than white.· I eat a lot of beans, lentils and vegetables, which are nutritious but cheap.· Milk is a very nutritious food, containing protein, vitamins and minerals.
food that is nourishing helps your body to grow or to stay healthy and also gives you energy: · A simple chicken soup is both nourishing and delicious.· Preparing good nourishing family meals was a challenge with eight mouths to feed.· The Centre is open throughout the year, to ensure that homeless people can get at least one hot, nourishing meal a day.
American food or activities that are healthful help keep your body healthy: · The American breakfast is getting more healthful, with whole-grain breads and high-fiber cereals.· Our research group found that consumers want healthful food based on vegetables not meat products.
formal something that is beneficial makes you more healthy or helps you to stay healthy: · The occasional glass of wine is both enjoyable and beneficial.beneficial to: · This treatment can be very beneficial, especially to young children.
ways of saying that something helps you to do something to make it easier for someone to do something or to make a difficult situation easier: · I took a couple of aspirin for my headache, but they didn't help.· The warm weather this spring has certainly helped the farmers.help somebody do something: · All this arguing isn't going to help us win the election.help somebody to do something: · The latest report should help us to evaluate the true benefits of the program.
formal to help someone do something: · They have developed a computerized system that will greatly assist all library users.assist somebody in/with something: · The guide is written to assist consumers in choosing the best insurance plan.
formal to help someone or something achieve something, by making the situation that they are in easier: · The new government grants are intended to aid small businesses.· Our ability to combat organized crime has been aided by our partnership with local police.aid in: · The new equipment has been provided to aid in the diagnosis of liver disorders.
if something is a help , it makes it easier for you to do something, especially something that would be difficult to do without it: · For the teachers, just having more books and equipment would be a help.be a big/great/real help: · Stating your objectives clearly will be a great help in organizing the research.
making it likely to be easier for you to do or achieve something: · If you're looking for a good guidebook, I found this one to be very helpful.· She gave us some helpful advice about renting apartments.helpful in: · Giving the test can be helpful in deciding the best way to treat a patient.it is helpful to do something: · It's helpful to prepare a list of questions before going to an interview.
actions, experiences, changes etc that are beneficial help to improve someone's situation or give them an advantage: · The relationship between the two companies has been mutually beneficial.beneficial to: · Recent studies show that moderate amounts of alcohol are beneficial to health.beneficial effect/impact/result: · There is no evidence that the diet pills have any beneficial effect on weight loss.
something that is a boon happens or is given to you, especially unexpectedly, and makes it much easier for you to do something: · Having a bicycle was a tremendous boon as our house was so far from the village.be a boon to/for: · The current low exchange rates are a boon for exporters.· Increased competition among airlines will prove to be a boon to tourists.
if you do something with the aid of something, especially an object, you need that thing to help you do it: · The bacteria can only be seen with the aid of a high power microscope.· Since the accident he's only been able to walk with the aid of a cane.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a drug that has a beneficial effect on the immune system Cycling is highly beneficial to health and the environment. an arrangement that is mutually beneficial (=it has advantages for everyone who is involved)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drug that has a beneficial effect on the immune system Cycling is highly beneficial to health and the environment. an arrangement that is mutually beneficial (=it has advantages for everyone who is involved) (=good, or helping someone or something in some way)· The incident had a very positive effect on his career.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· This is just as beneficial as having animal protein.· Articulation of modes of production and dependency theories would view the continued use of these labor forms as beneficial to capitalism.· Why not accept that, and play a leading role in creating it in as beneficial an environment as possible?· While analysts applauded the move as beneficial to Tupperware, some people questioned where the spinoff would leave Premark.· Elemental diet has been shown to be as beneficial as corticosteroid treatment in children with Crohn's disease.· Fourthly, reference has already been made to the need for cooperation to be perceived as beneficial.· Balance chairs are better than conventional chairs but not as beneficial as the Gorman chair.· The secret of success here will be the basis of consultation and cooperation which can be seen as beneficial to both sides.
· This can be extremely beneficial in stress-related cases.· It influences the manager's daily activities and decisions and can have extremely beneficial results for the organization.· I am sure you will find it extremely beneficial whatever sector of the industry you are employed in.
· So how do we remove the mystery from a potentially highly beneficial technology?· It would be highly beneficial to the natural environment if additions to existing works could also be made subject to planning control.
· I think that this was more beneficial than continuing my education directly.· Series books also make having conversations about books more beneficial.· They will still meet their contractual obligations but at a time more beneficial to the patients and thus be more cost effective.· In such a case, pain and emotion can eventually be contacted, after which therapy is more beneficial.· They were more beneficial in a disease caused by another Mycobacterium, leprosy.· But an alliance with AccuTrade could prove even more beneficial.· Although the formal agenda item is always very useful, perhaps even more beneficial is the process of sharing.
· The most beneficial case appears to be when the trigrams are used in combination with both factors.· The most beneficial projects should then be selected until the aggregate resources estimated equal those allocated to new projects in Figure 2.6.· Undoubtedly the most beneficial skills brought to the farm were engineering and building skills.· It's often Overlooked but it is probably the single most beneficial part - having a good time.· The import of the Mallion lines could be considered the most beneficial thing that had happened so far in the breed.· A specially developed Outward Bound course has also proved to be not only popular amongst staff, but most beneficial.· The clean, crisp air of mountainous regions is perhaps the most beneficial of all.
· Obtaining frankness within families about the feelings and expectations they have of each other can be mutually beneficial.· Some of those diets were the result of a mutually beneficial alliance between physicians and food producers.· The justification for participating in international arrangements is that they are mutually beneficial to all participants.· It encourages open communication, and learning about processes of living in mutually beneficial ways.· Community Linking is direct people to people contact which leads to equal, mutually beneficial relationships across cultures.· Cleaning symbiosis on the other hand is a true form of mutually beneficial arrangement with both cleaner and host benefiting.· To ensure a mutually beneficial outcome it is necessary that both parties be fully informed of all relevant information.· What looks like a zero sum confrontation can, with a little goodwill, be transformed into a mutually beneficial nonzero sum game.
· The Regional Committees have reported that the presence of a top visiting senior coach proved to be particularly beneficial for the youngsters.· The Humberside Training and Enterprise Council found these particularly beneficial.· Cycling to work is particularly beneficial because it combines physical exercise with an essential daily task.· This may be particularly beneficial for those making a major career move within an organisation.· The chapter on comparison of depth profiling methods is likely to be particularly beneficial to the newcomer.· The benefits are wide-ranging, and exercise is particularly beneficial to the elderly and the chronically sick.
· These arrangements tend to be very beneficial to both because of the personal commitment involved.· It is very beneficial to work for yourself, but there are trade-offs.· Volunteer tutors often help students individually, which can be very beneficial.· We hope that further studies support these very beneficial effects of support during labor.· Open access with a larger number of smaller commercial companies would prove very beneficial to customers in ways not possible today.· Under different situations in nature Azolla is regarded to be an undesirable weed or a very beneficial plant.· I used to attend his classes when I was in high school and that was very, very beneficial.
NOUN· Indeed, it may well have had the indirect, beneficial effect of encouraging the search for better methods.· This creeping classical conundrum could have untold beneficial effects on the population as a whole.· But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance.· As mentioned in the discussion of pathophysiology, their beneficial effect is mainly due to the blocking of striatal acetylcholine receptors.· Organised self-help groups also rely on the beneficial effects of talking and discussion.· We hope that further studies support these very beneficial effects of support during labor.· This quantitative difference may also account for the beneficial effects seen after surgical interruption of the left stellate ganglion.· Even though the medication may have lost its initial beneficial effects, they believe they can not stop taking the pill.
· But the beneficial impact of such initiatives will only be felt when the punters start discriminating positively in favour of those taking a lead.· If the latter is the more important, then privatisation of large nationalised industries intact will have little beneficial impact.
· Their only assets were their half shares of the beneficial interests in their matrimonial homes.· Secondly, the section is concerned with the beneficial interests existing when a payment falls to be made.· The beneficial interests are normally vested in the beneficiaries.· In each case the entire beneficial interest in the deposit belongs to B to the exclusion of A who made the deposit.· Marius could not have any beneficial interest in any part of it.· The beneficial interests are attached to the proceeds of sale.
· Conversion is achieved by transferring the nominee holding to the beneficial owner.· Lawyers, under the cloak of client confidentiality, can mask the beneficial owners of accounts.
· In the short term, however, the Milan Conference had the beneficial result of placing deaf education on the political agenda.· The tests often have beneficial results by removing some of the anxiety about the possibility of any abnormality.· Can anyone doubt that to achieve these beneficial results was her main aim?· The trip was to have beneficial results despite this.· It influences the manager's daily activities and decisions and can have extremely beneficial results for the organization.· What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution, for Unionists had expected them for some time.· This friction reducing additive may be used in all the engine and transmission of your L.R. with beneficial results.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Cleaning symbiosis on the other hand is a true form of mutually beneficial arrangement with both cleaner and host benefiting.
- Community Linking is direct people to people contact which leads to equal, mutually beneficial relationships across cultures.
- It encourages open communication, and learning about processes of living in mutually beneficial ways.
- Obtaining frankness within families about the feelings and expectations they have of each other can be mutually beneficial.
- Some of those diets were the result of a mutually beneficial alliance between physicians and food producers.
- These few basic rules can make your group maximally helpful:-Meet regularly at a mutually acceptable time and place.
- This commission would be composed of mutually acceptable and appropriate international personalities and representatives from governments and international organizations.
- This takes place at a time prearranged to be mutually convenient.
WORD FAMILYnounbenefitbeneficiaryadjectivebeneficialverbbenefitadverbbeneficially
having a good effect OPP detrimental: a drug that has a beneficial effect on the immune systembeneficial to/for Cycling is highly beneficial to health and the environment. an arrangement that is mutually beneficial (=it has advantages for everyone who is involved)—beneficially adverb