beneficiary
/bɛnɪˈfɪʃ(ə)ri
/noun (plural beneficiaries)
A person who derives advantage from something, especially a trust, will, or life insurance policy.Australia would be the beneficiary of a policy it did not have to underwrite....
- One beneficiary of the trust was Niels Bohr, the Danish atomic physicist who went on to win the Nobel prize.
- He was supposed to be the beneficiary of a trust fund left by his mother when she died in 1983.
Synonyms
heir, heiress, inheritor, legatee;
recipient, receiver, payee, donee, assignee;
Law devisee, grantee, cestui que trust;
Scottish Law heritor
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin beneficiarius, from beneficium (see benefice).
Rhymes
- millennianism
- millenniarism
- millenniary
- millennist
- millennium
- millennium baby
- millennium bomb
- millennium bug
- millenniumism
- millepede
- millepore
- milleporine
- miller
- millerandage
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller effect
- Miller, Glenn
- Miller, Henry
- Millerian
- Miller integrator
- Millerism
- millerite
- Miller, Samuel Freeman
- miller's thumb
- Miller–Dieker syndrome