beneficiate

From Spanish beneficiar (“to benefit, to work mines”).

beneficiate (third-person singular simple present beneficiates, present participle beneficiating, simple past and past participle beneficiated)

1. (mining, dated) To reduce (ores or other raw materials)
   • 1980, “Appendix 5D”, in Robert A. Freitas, William P. Gilbreath, editors, Advanced Automation for Space Missions:

     Also, Carrier (1979) has pointed out that it may be more efficient to beneficiate raw materials at the pit site so that only useful soil components need be transported some distance to the LMF.

• beneficiation

• “beneficiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

beneficiate

1. inflection of beneficiare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

beneficiate f pl

1. feminine plural of beneficiato

beneficiate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of beneficiar combined with te