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Definitions: Beneficiary |
BeneficiaryAdjective1. Having or arising from a benefice; "a beneficiary baron". Noun1. The recipient of funds or other benefits. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beneficiary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Third party beneficiary in a payment transaction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | 1. In the case of a letter of credit, the individual or company who is entitled to draw or demand payment under its terms. 2. In the case of insurance, the person entitled to take the proceeds. 3. The person for whose benefit a contract, or trust, or will is executed or enforced. (references) |
Finance | A)ultimate party to be credited or paid as a result of a transfer; b)party in whose favour the credit is issued. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The person designated to receive funds in a trust account or an insurance policy. (references) | |
Law | A person intended to benefit from a trust, as distinguished from trustees who only hold the trust property for the good of the beneficiary and not their own profit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Person, group or country that receives the assistance or services of others, without charge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | - Entity to whom money is payable. - The entity for whom a letter of credit is issued. - The seller and the drawer of a draft. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BeneficiarySynonym: donee (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: cestui (law). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch, hierarch; ebdomarius; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher. |
Possessor | Cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor. |
Receiving | Sportulary, stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary; almsman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | The beneficiary. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Beneficiary (1980) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The roof over his head was saved by the Red Cross, and his food and seeds for his garden plot also were from the Red Cross. Albert Wetherspoon, 70 year-old colored man, is a beneficiary of the drought relief work. A foreclosure on his little farm was put.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | No license in respect of industrial, literary or artistic property, granted under the special war legislation of any Allied or Associated Power, shall be affected by the continued existence of any license entered into before the war, but shall remain valid and of full effect, and a license so granted to the former beneficiary of a license entered into before the war shall be considered as substituted for such license. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The AFJP remains responsible for the payment of contingencies due to the death of the affiliate or a secondary beneficiary. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | The UNHCR issued beneficiary cards to persons it recognized as refugees. (references) |
Economic History | Colombia | The cut flower industry has been the most prominent beneficiary. (references) |
Greece | Historically, Greece has been a net beneficiary of the EU budget. (references) | |
Political Economy | GUATEMALA | Guatemala's beneficiary status under the Caribbean Basin Trade Preference Act (CBTPA) and the General System of Preferences (GSP) were reviewed with a focus on labor rights in April. (references) |
Trade | Mexico | Thus the second beneficiary finances the assembler or first beneficiary. (references) |
Mexico | The second case is when a manufacturer, the second beneficiary, provides components or parts. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Costa Rica | In June that complaint served as the basis for an AFL-CIO petition to remove Costa Rica from the list of beneficiary countries under the U.S. General System of Preferences and the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Beneficiary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.10% of the time. "Beneficiary" is used about 368 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.1% | 361 | 14,936 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.9% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 368 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "beneficiary": beneficiary of a trust by will ♦ beneficiary party ♦ residuary beneficiary ♦ ultimate beneficiary. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "beneficiary": consignor-beneficiary, income-beneficiary. | |
Containing "beneficiary": trustee-beneficiary relation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "beneficiary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prift (camister, churchman, divine, jack-priest, josser, presbyter, priest), ai që fiton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صاحبة رتبة كنيس ذات دخل, المستفيد (carpetbagger, grantee, payee, recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | облагодетелствувано лице, наследник (devisee, heir, heritor, inheritor, legatee, successor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 獲益者 , 受益人 (Beneficiaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | beneficiární, příjemce (acceptor, receiver, recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bistandsklient (recipient of social security benefit), beneficiary (cestui que trust), beneficianten (payee), ydelsesmodtager (person in receipt of benefits, recipient(of benefits)), vekseltager (payee), remittent (beneficiary party, favour of, payee, remitter, ultimate beneficiary), modtager af gratisydelser, medberettiget. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | beneficiary (cestui que trust), begunstigde (assignée, beneficiary party, favour of, grantee, payee, recipient, successful bidder, tenderer selected, ultimate beneficiary), wisselnemer (payee), uitkeringsgerechtigde (recipient of social security benefit), sociale uitkeringstrekker (recipient of social security benefit), rechthebbende op uitkeringen (person in receipt of benefits, recipient(of benefits)), kredietverkrijger (beneficiary party, favour of, ultimate beneficiary), kredietnemer (beneficiary party, borrower, credit receiver, credited party, debtor, favour of, person credited, ultimate beneficiary), degene die in het genot is van uitkeringen (person in receipt of benefits, recipient(of benefits)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وظیفه خوار (Pensioner), ذینفع (Nominee), ذیحق (Rightful), استفاده (Avail, Benefit, Gain, Use, Utilization), بهره بردار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | edunsaaja (eligible person, grantee, party entitled, rightful claimant), avustettava. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bénéficiaire (beneficiary party, ultimate beneficiary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nutznießer (beneficiaries, tenant for life, usufructuary), Begünstigter (beneficiary party, cestui que trust, favour of, recipient, ultimate beneficiary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δικαιούχος (artificial person, beneficiary party, favour of, fictitious person, legal body, legal person, payee, recipient, ultimate beneficiary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | " " (amused, delighted, enjoyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megajándékozott, haszonélvező (lessee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ahli waris (heir, inheritor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | beneficiario (annuitant, beneficial owner, cestui que trust, grantee, payee, receiver, recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 受益者 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅえきしゃ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수익자 (Beneficiaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | geddynagh, feddynagh (acquisitive, finder, inventive, inventor, locating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneficiarybay beneficiário (allottee, assignee, cestui que trust, licensee, payee, receiver, recipient, transferee). (various references) beneficiar (economic, gainer, recipient). (various references) феодальный вассал (feudatory), глава церковного прихода. (various references) korisnik (user). (various references) beneficiario (assignee, beneficial owner, beneficiary party, cestui que trust, favour of, payee, recipient, transferee, ultimate beneficiary). (various references) förmånstagare. (various references) ผู้ไ"้รับประโยชน์. (various references) yararlanan kimse, lehtar, hak sahibi (encumbrancer, person entitled, title holder). (various references) священик, що очолю" парафію, феодальний васал, бенефіціарій. (various references) người hưởng hoa lợi, cha cố giữ t i sản của nh chung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Beneficiary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beneficairy, beneficary, beneficery, beneficiar, beneficiarly, beneficiry, benificiary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beneficiary" (pronounced be'nufi"shēe'rē) |
| 6 | -i" sh ē e' r ē | judiciary. |
| 5 | -sh ē e' r ē | fiduciary. |
| 4 | -ē e' r ē | aviary, pecuniary, subsidiary, topiary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, temporary, Tilbury, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-i-i-n-r-y" | |
-4 letters: beanery, benefic, carbine, carnify, eirenic, faience, fancier, fiancee. | |
-5 letters: aerify, beanie, biface, binary, brainy, byrnie, cairny, careen, caribe, carney, carnie, enface, eyebar, fabric, faerie, fainer, farcie, feirie, fencer, feriae, ferine, fiacre, fiance, fibrin, fierce, finery, infare, irenic, nearby, recane, reface, refine, ribeye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-i-i-n-r-y" | |
+3 letters: enforceability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 6E 65 66 69 63 69 61 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -. . ..-. .. -.-. .. .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100110 01101001 01100011 01101001 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e n e f i c i a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006E 0065 0066 0069 0063 0069 0061 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671807172756975678491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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