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benefiter en · NOUN

Etymology

From benefit + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who receives a benefit.
2. A person who benefits somebody else; benefactor.
   • That principle carried out consistently and logically, makes the individual not a claimant upon society, but a benefiter of it. He contributes whatever talent, natural or acquired, he may have, cheerfully to the promotion of the common good, […] 1849, William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 17, page 217:

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