Usually means: Granting benefits to another party.
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  1. benefactive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. benefactive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. benefactive: Wiktionary
  4. benefactive: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. benefactive: Dictionary.com
  6. Benefactive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. benefactive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  8. benefactive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (benefactive)

adjective:  (linguistics) Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as "on behalf of" or "on one's behalf."
noun:  A term or sentence element that serves a benefactive role or that is inflected for the benefactive case or a similar case (such as the dative case).

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