benefiting
- 1Present participle of benefit.
Local farmers are benefiting from the unusually wet spring.
She walked away without ever benefiting from the program she helped create.
Note
The -ing form works in both of the verb's directions, and the preposition tells you which one. With from, the subject is the one who gains: farmers benefiting from rain. With a direct object, the subject is the source of the gain: a tax change benefiting small firms. Either way it can also act as a gerund, heading a noun phrase after a preposition, as in without ever benefiting.
The new rules end up benefiting small firms more than large ones.
Benefiting the whole town was always the goal of the project.
benefiting is a form of benefit
benefit, verb: To help someone or something or give them an advantage; also, to gain an advantage or be helped. Full entry
- Spelling
- benefit → benefiting: add -ing
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