social benefit

collocation in English

meaningsofsocialandbenefit

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social
adjective
uk
/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/
us
/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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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 ofsocialandbenefitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These results indicate that it is possible to outline area management policies that would generate greatersocialbenefitwhile also increasing species viability.
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The forwarding arrangement thus began very quickly to take on the form of asocialbenefit.
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This externalsocialbenefitwill not be fully recognised by commercial lenders.
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The totalsocialbenefitincludes the expected gains from the study for future patients.
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This further emphasised that forwarded maintenance was becoming asocialbenefitmore than a mere forwarding arrangement.
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To this end, government obviously needs to reform taxes and restructuresocialbenefitprograms.
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The strategy thus far has been to dignify work as creativity aimed at universalsocialbenefit.
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Even indirect forms of aggression, as seen predominantly in females, are counterproductive and do not appear to have individual orsocialbenefit.
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The result of removing the constraint is to introduce a new parameter, the marginalsocialbenefitof government labor.
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The introduction of health technologies of questionable health andsocialbenefitis restricted, which contributes to the control of medical costs.
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Socialbenefitwould be tested, dividends would be capped and assets could only be transferred to another organisation with an asset lock.
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Strictly speaking however, the optimal level of pollution abatement should be determined by the equality of the marginalsocialbenefitof abatement with the marginal social cost of abatement.
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The application of technology depends upon a disorganized series of decisions by individual physicians that leads to an allocation of resources that rarely coincides with optimalsocialbenefit(4, 128).
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Although, given our strong social dependencies, there is usually somesocialbenefitwhen a person stops drinking or smoking or overeating or gambling, such benefits are arguably incidental.
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There is nosocialbenefitin having a business run as a private limited company as against private ownership.
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In many areas the facilities in non-profit-making clubs are ofsocialbenefitto the communities that they serve.
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That is simply because they appreciate thesocialbenefitof better heated and insulated homes.
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That has been a tremendoussocialbenefitto a great many people, but it is bad for energy efficiency.
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What sort of pension andsocialbenefitdo we think adequate in present circumstances?
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Private car ownership is a greatsocialbenefitand will steadily grow year by year.
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