potential beneficiary

collocation in English

meaningsofpotentialandbeneficiary

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/
us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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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 ofpotentialandbeneficiaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpotential beneficiary

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Thepotentialbeneficiarygroup consists of families with children.
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The benefits focused on here represent quite nicely various types of income transfers which are different as regards their entitlement rules and also theirpotentialbeneficiarygroups.
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Psychoanalysis, which had firm control of both the theory and practice of child psychiatry at the time, tended to see almost every child as apotentialbeneficiaryof treatment.
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Thepotentialbeneficiaryis refusing to recognise the donor's right to implement certain basic principles.
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When completion and success fees are agreed with advisers, it is ridiculous to rely on valuations made by thepotentialbeneficiaryof the success fee.
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Information would then also be required to establish the amount of capital held by eachpotentialbeneficiary.
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I am the possessor of a self-employed deferred annuity and apotentialbeneficiaryfrom a pension fund.
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I must start by declaring an interest as apotentialbeneficiaryunder a self-employed person's pension scheme.
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Every man who has made his contribution to this particular fund would be apotentialbeneficiary.
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He has had to admit that his farm is still apotentialbeneficiaryof the trust.
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The survey proposed that there were two major factors affecting altruistic behaviour: namely; is thepotentialbeneficiarydeserving?
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How, when a scheme has been made, is apotentialbeneficiaryto know whether he is in the scheme or out of it?
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He knows that that is thepotentialbeneficiaryaudience for family credit, so what on earth is he talking about?
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This allowance was meanstested, and the income of a spouse could disqualify apotentialbeneficiary.
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The individual whose life is to be saved must be a specific, identifiable individual, rather than an abstract orpotentialbeneficiary.
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This states that the trustees must be able to say with certainty, when apotentialbeneficiarycomes before them, that he either is or is not a beneficiary.
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Put differently, the potential beneficiaries of the policy must be either identifiable (as in distributive politics) or imaginable (as in the politics of collective welfare).
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Since potential beneficiaries were likely to be too poor or otherwise disadvantaged to defend their own legal interests, a 'guardian' of charitable trusts was established.
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Nevertheless, the law had sought to distinguish and reconcile three contending entities in the practice of charity - namely, family rights, the public weal and the potential beneficiaries of charitable trusts.
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Hemmingen supported 13 adults and 36 children in 1574, and 7 more potential beneficiaries are mentioned.
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