chief beneficiary
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chief
adjective[before noun]
uk/tʃiːf/us/tʃiːf/
most important ...
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beneficiary
noun[C]
uk/ˌben.əˈfɪʃ.ər.i/us/ˌben.əˈfɪʃ.i.er.i/
a person or group who receives money, advantages, etc. as a result of ...
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(Definition ofchiefandbeneficiaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thechiefbeneficiarywould be women who are in employment, especially those in single-parent families.
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But he is thechiefbeneficiaryof public expenditure, taking possibly the largest share of the allocation of resources.
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Now thechiefbeneficiarywill be the money lender.
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They naturally do not support their arguments by deploying the case of the property dealer, for example, who would be thechiefbeneficiaryfrom an exemption of this kind.
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She was thechiefbeneficiaryof her father's estate, inheriting assets estimated at $18 to 20 million when he died in 1933.
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Public office-holders, along with their allies and friends, are regarded as the chief beneficiaries of public policies.
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The measure was seen as encouraging private provision although in the event primary schools were the chief beneficiaries.
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The chief beneficiaries of the scheme seem to me to be our international competitors.
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We expect people with impaired sight to be amongst the chief beneficiaries of the new rates.
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The chief beneficiaries will be authors who are already very rich, or foreign, or both.
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Indeed, reference has been made to the fact that the chief beneficiaries of biotechnological patents will be large multinationals.
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The chief beneficiaries can leave the country and enjoy a much lower rate of tax once they get there.
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This is an all-out attack on working men's clubs because they, after all, are the chief beneficiaries.
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Of course the chief beneficiaries will be those who have shares in a certain large company.
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They would be the chief beneficiaries.
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However, there are also arguments that such people are the chief beneficiaries of the elite's constant feathering of their nests, and so their travel and assets should be frozen.
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All sorts of schemes may be dreamt up to do something about this problem, but the chief beneficiaries will be the estate agents—some may say, "again".
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The chief beneficiaries of these undertakings are charities, and above all, hospitals, which receive very large sums of money in the areas where these tournaments are held.
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The latter see the proletariat as the chief agents of change and the chief beneficiaries of change—indeed, the chief instruments for wresting power from the owners of property.
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