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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

好处

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hǎochù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Benefit/ˈbɛn.ɪ.fɪt/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #850 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"新政策将为员工带来好处。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An advantage or profit gained from something.

    "The new policy will provide significant benefits to employees."
As verb
  1. 1

    To receive an advantage; to gain.

    "Many students benefit from extra tutoring."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'beneficium', meaning a kindness, favor, or good deed, composed of 'bene' (well) and 'facere' (to do). It entered Middle English via Old French 'bienfait' in the 14th century, eventually shifting from an act of kindness to an advantage or profit gained from something.

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