pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society. Origin of managerial. 1760-1770.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Wikipedia. beneficence. the doing of active goodness, kindness, or charity, including all actions intended to benefit others. It is contrasted to benevolence, which refers to the character trait or moral virtue of being disposed to act for the benefit of others. In bioethics, the principle of beneficence refers to a moral obligation to act for the benefit of others. Not all acts of beneficence are obligatory, but a principle of beneficence asserts an obligation to help others further their interests.
For all these of course are exceptions, and the rule and hodiernal life of a good man is benefaction. View in context Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous. View in context He was president of the Stanford University, a private benefaction of the times.