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"text": "The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.",
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"text": "If any beneficiary does not survive the settlor for a period of 30 days then the trustee shall distribute that beneficiary’s share to the surviving beneficiaries by right of representation.",
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"ref": "2020, Katharina Pistor, “2: Coding Land”, in The Code of Capital […], Princeton University Press",
"text": "In a second step, the rights to the asset are divided between the trustee, who holds formal title, and the beneficiary, who receives the (future) economic interest.",
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],
"links": [
[
"gratuity",
"gratuity"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əɹ.i/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌbɛn.əˈfɪʃ.əɹ.i/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ɚ.i/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɛn.əˈfɪʃ.iˌɚ.i/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-beneficiary.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c4/En-au-beneficiary.ogg/En-au-beneficiary.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/En-au-beneficiary.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "beneficiary"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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