direct benefit

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectandbenefit

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/
us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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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 ofdirectandbenefitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdirect benefit

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This will have both a public-health benefit and adirectbenefitto the prisoners.
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In this context, the lack ofdirectbenefitto the patient provides no counterweight to the loss of dignity incurred.
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Further, are these inherently subjective emotions sufficient justification for donation when nodirectbenefitwill result?
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There is no evidence of projects providing non-contributory pensions or other measures ofdirectbenefitto the elderly.
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In some cases, elections are perceived to have little or nodirectbenefitto villagers and their welfare.
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Welfare recipients apparently understand that government spending, services and employment guarantees all operate to their owndirectbenefit.
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But in fact, bringing the functional programming perspective to the interfaces proved to be of moredirectbenefit.
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Do schemes provide goods and services that are ofdirectbenefitto the local population?
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Safeguards to scientific rigor are being compromised, the authors assert, due to thedirectbenefitindustrial sponsors receive from favorable results of and the virtually complete control over these trials.
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A moredirectbenefitto researchers is that a functional framework can facilitate the identification of rich topics and hypotheses that are both important and, heretofore, little researched.
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Research, especially research with no possibility of providing adirectbenefitto the minor subject, closely mirrors issues involved in organ donation, where direct benefit is unlikely.
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Mirroring our earlier work,3 we find that people who rely on governmental assistance take rational, self-interested positions on the public policy issues which operate to their owndirectbenefit.
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Most (80% and 88%) felt children could be harmed by participation in trials and half (47% and 59%) felt children should only participate if they receivedirectbenefit.
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They need to see adirectbenefit: to have success, bioinformaticians and computer scientists must work closely and be driven by the needs of the biologist.
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Outcome was defined as thedirectbenefitexperienced by individuals who received evidencebased interventions, expressed in terms of population health.
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The result will be a substantial non-inflationary boost to world income, much of which will be ofdirectbenefitto developing countries.
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There is of course adirectbenefitfor everybody involved in a pension scheme in the introduction of this regulatory authority.
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This gives the taxpayer somedirectbenefitfrom the quota.
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It was never argued that it would be ofdirectbenefitto this country, for those countries to come in.
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Many of those affected, particularly where the environment has been destroyed, have gained nodirectbenefit.
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