(US) A kind of corporate entity that seeks to have a positive impact on society and environment in addition to making profit.

(UK, law, historical) A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.

plural of benefit club

Alternative form of defined benefits

(Scotland, law) A legal privilege whereby an heir secured himself against unlimited liability for his ancestor, by giving up within the annus deliberandi an inventory of his heritage or real estate, which then represented the maximum extent to which he was liable.

(rare) Alternative form of benefit of the doubt

(marketing) Market segmentation based on what different groups of consumers want from a product or service.

Alternative form of benefits cliff

plural of benefit cliff

Alternative spelling of cost-benefit analysis