BENEFICIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beneficiary mean? 

• BENEFICIARY (noun)
  The noun BENEFICIARY has 2 senses:

1. the recipient of funds or other benefits

2. the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

  Familiarity information: BENEFICIARY used as a noun is rare.

• BENEFICIARY (adjective)
  The adjective BENEFICIARY has 1 sense:

1. having or arising from a benefice

  Familiarity information: BENEFICIARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENEFICIARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The recipient of funds or other benefits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beneficiary; donee

Hypernyms ("beneficiary" is a kind of...):

receiver; recipient (a person who receives something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beneficiary"):

co-beneficiary (one of two or more beneficiaries of the same benefit)

devisee (someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will)

legatee (someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed)

pensionary; pensioner (the beneficiary of a pension fund)

Derivation:

benefice (endow with a benefice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

benefactive role; beneficiary

Hypernyms ("beneficiary" is a kind of...):

participant role; semantic role ((linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause)

• BENEFICIARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or arising from a benefice

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a beneficiary baron

Pertainym:

benefice (an endowed church office giving income to its holder)

Derivation:

benefice (an endowed church office giving income to its holder)

 Context examples 

Participating beneficiaries pay part of healthcare costs through deductible amounts.

(Medicare, NCI Thesaurus)

Participating beneficiaries usually pay no part of costs for covered healthcare expenses except a small co-payment required in some cases.

(Medicaid, NCI Thesaurus)

Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary.

(Insurance, Health, Reimbursement, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The device causes cellular or tissue responses that elicit an undesirable local or systemic effect in the recipient or beneficiary of that therapy (see ISO 10993).

(Device Biocompatibility Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

When you have a packed eleventh house—as you do with Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Mercury, and the Sun, all crowded into your eleventh house, the opposite house on the horoscope wheel, found 180-degrees away and straight across the sky to your fifth house of truelove—creativity and children will be the beneficiary of lots of Jupiter’s golden energy, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Limited monthly premiums are required from beneficiaries for non-hospital coverage.

(Medicare, NCI Thesaurus)