BENEFICIAL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of beneficial in English

(Definition of beneficial from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of beneficial from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of beneficial

beneficial
Therefore, the proposed approach is beneficial to reducing the tracking error.
He takes things to have a function only if they have beneficial effects that explain their presence.
Even if the creation is overall beneficial for the child, that is not alone a sufficient reason to refuse to impose liability.
Our linguistic hypothesis assumes that written spelling is beneficial because it provides a concrete, visible representation of a word's phonological form.
The reader is correct in this; some other modification might be better and perhaps orthogonalization, which is numerically feasible, might be beneficial.
To them, trying something unproven, potentially risky, but also potentially beneficial seemed reasonable.
This suggests scope for beneficial market intervention aimed at providing good pensions at low costs.
Most importantly the process needs to be beneficial to patients and staff with realistic expectations being placed upon both groups of people.
Decreasing stress should have a beneficial effect, especially at later stages of life when the hippocampus may be more vulnerable.
An assumption implicit in this 'safety-first' principle is that slow rehydration, if not beneficial, at least is not damaging to the partially dehydrated tissue.
In this paper we explore how working together to build flood control structures, especially storage capacity, may not always be beneficial to all parties involved.
Moreover, recycling can be economically beneficial in developing countries.
This is beneficial, because the process of editing such information becomes part of the ontology maintenance.
Therefore, people living in endemic areas should be screened for this clinically silent disease since early treatment may be beneficial.
Patients were asked to commit themselves to at least 12 sessions because we believed that was the minimum required for a beneficial effect.
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Translations of beneficial

in Chinese (Traditional)
有益的,有用的,有利的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
有益的,有用的,有利的…
in Spanish
beneficioso, beneficioso/osa [masculine-feminine]…
in Portuguese
benéfico, proveitoso, vantajoso…
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फायदेशीर, किफायतशीर, सहाय्यकरी…
有益な, 役立つ, 有益(ゆうえき)な…
faydalı, yararlı, hayırlı…
bénéfique, bon (pour)…
beneficiós…
heilzaam…
உதவியாக, பயனுள்ள, அல்லது நல்லது…
फायदेमंद, लाभकारी…
નફાકારક, ફાયદાકારક, લાભકારક…
velgørende…
välgörande, nyttig, fördelaktig…
mendatangkan faedah…
nützlich, wohltätig…
fordelaktig, gunstig, bra…
مفید, کارآمد…
корисний, цілющий…
полезный…
సహాయకరం, ఉపయోగకరం, లేదా మంచిది…
نَفعي, مُفيد…
সহায়ক, দরকারী বা ভালো…
prospěšný, blahodárný…
pengaruh baik, bermanfaat…
เป็นประโยชน์…
có ích…
korzystny, dobroczynny…
이로운…
benefico, giovevole…
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