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n. One that receives a benefit: I am the beneficiary of your generosity.

n. The recipient of funds, property, or other benefits, as from an insurance policy or will.

n. Ecclesiastical The holder of a benefice.

n. One who benefits or receives an advantage.

n. One who benefits from the distribution, especially of an estate.

adj. Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.

adj. Bestowed as a gratuity.

n. A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.

n. One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.

Arising from feudal tenure; feudatory; holding under a feudal or other superior; subordinate: as, “beneficiary services,” ; “a feudatory or beneficiary king,”

Connected with the receipt of benefits, profits, or advantages; freely bestowed: as, beneficiary gifts or privileges.

n. One who holds a benefice.

n. In feudal law, a feudatory or vassal.

n. One who is in the receipt of benefits, profits, or advantages; one who receives something as a free gift.

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

adj. having or arising from a benefice

n. the recipient of funds or other benefits

"Tobits denied she ever signed the designation beneficiary form, according to court documents."

participant role    semantic role   

benefactor    benefactress   

usufructuary    prebendary    prebend    chargeant    chargee    donee    grantee    impropriator    impropriatrix    incumbent   

judiciary   

trustee    executor    instigator    purchaser    contributor    drawback    determinant    stockholder    executrix    sponsor