A person who receives a benefit; one who is intended to receive or does receive money, property, or other advantage from a benefactor, trust, or will.
From French beneficiaire, from Latin beneficiarius 'one who enjoys a favor,' from beneficium 'benefit.' The French form is used in English particularly in legal and financial contexts.
Beneficiaire is the French spelling that sneaks into English legal documents—maintaining the French form signals prestige and precision, as if using the original language makes contracts more binding.
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