immediate benefit

collocation in English

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immediate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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benefit
noun
uk
/ˈben.ɪ.fɪt/us
/ˈben.ə.fɪt/
a helpful or good effect, or something intended ...
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(Definition ofimmediateandbenefitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimmediate benefit

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These motivations have always had to be balanced against issues that might have had a moreimmediatebenefitto society, an ethical choice.
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The graph understates the total investment in 1983 since a third of the short-term pain took the form ofimmediatebenefitcuts, not captured here.
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Oneimmediatebenefitof the integration approach is that problems of consistency can be finessed.
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It would mean that levels would effectively be forced to pay for works from which they derived noimmediatebenefit.
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Animmediatebenefitof such a definition is that it extends the syntax of programs allowing embedded implication in clauses.
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Communities are made aware of the value of collective action through involvement in projects ofimmediatebenefitto the participants that address widely felt issues or problems.
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Theimmediatebenefitis that the co-inductive nature of bisimilarity can be exploited by putting its vast body of proof techniques to work in order to reason about barbed congruence.
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They will, however, receive theimmediatebenefitof weekly or monthly reductions for the rest of the tax year.
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There appears to me to be one greatimmediatebenefitfrom obeying this principle.
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I quite agree that the production figures, which are the test of effort, are not the test ofimmediatebenefit.
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It is produced in large numbers and one gets theimmediatebenefitof lower prices.
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There springs to the ordinary mind the idea of theimmediatebenefitof lower costs by the introduction of bulk purchase.
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It means that they do recommend these dependants' benefits to be animmediatebenefitwhich they wish to see secured.
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The great thing that encourages recruiting is not the future benefit but theimmediatebenefita man gets when he joins.
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They obtained noimmediatebenefitfrom the extra burden.
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Given a free choice, most employers will choose not to release their staff because they do not obtain animmediatebenefit.
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Such measures involve less call for capital expenditure and do have animmediatebenefitfor public transport.
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On the one hand they had to cater for the needs of existing patients who would receive from those attentionsimmediatebenefit.
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This will be ofimmediatebenefitto those companies which remain eligible for grant under the scheme's transitional provisions.
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It provides an opportunity of dramatic andimmediatebenefitto our people.
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