Benefiter

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who receives a benefit.
  2. 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, […]"

Example

More examples

"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, […]"

Etymology

From benefit + -er.

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