friendship with benefits
- noun
- /ˈfrɛndʃɪp wɪð ˈbɛnɪfɪts/
- NSFW
:
amistad con beneficios
- Maintaining a friendship with benefits can be complicated if one person develops deeper feelings.
Examples
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After their breakups, they agreed to a friendship with benefits without any pressure for commitment.
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Some people find a friendship with benefits easier than a traditional relationship.
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They have a friendship with benefits that works for both of them.
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Is a friendship with benefits really a good idea?
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After their breakups, they agreed to a friendship with benefits without any pressure for commitment.
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Maintaining a friendship with benefits can be complicated if one person develops deeper feelings.
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Some people find a friendship with benefits easier than a traditional relationship.
Synonyms
5
7.4
Friends who have sex but are not a romantic couple
Antonyms
How Committed
∞
1.0
399
5.4
357
1.6
- NSFW
- NSFW
20
8.2
- NSFW
36
6.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
friendship + with + benefit
Although a learner who knows 'friendship', 'with' and 'benefit' might infer 'a friendship that includes some extra advantages', the specific sense of sexual activity without romantic commitment is a euphemistic, culture-specific use of 'benefits' that is not predictable from the literal meanings. This idiomatic, pragmatic meaning (as in 'friends with benefits') is therefore not transparently derivable for a B1 learner who has not encountered the expression before.
Etymology
Friendship with benefits may come from the simple idea of a regular friendship plus extra benefits, like physical closeness or sex, but without becoming a romantic partner. So the phrase shows a friendly bond that also includes sexual activity 'without commitment'.