The phrase "a material benefit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing advantages or gains that have tangible or significant value in a particular context.
Example: "The new policy will provide a material benefit to employees by increasing their health insurance coverage."
Alternatives: "a tangible advantage" or "a significant gain".
Here the promisor received a material benefit constituting a valid consideration for his promise.
This was a material benefit to him of infinitely more value than any financial aid he could have received.
Slavery has been criminalised, as well as child labour, and "forcing a child to marry another person in exchange for a material benefit".
This rule, however, is subject to qualification in those cases where the promisor having received a material benefit from the promisee, is morally bound to compensate him for the services rendered and in consideration of this obligation promises to pay.
2. It is well settled that a moral obligation is a sufficient consideration to support a subsequent promise to pay where the promisor has received a material benefit, although there was no original duty or liability resting on the promisor.
Any holding that saving a man from death or grievous bodily harm is not a material benefit sufficient to uphold a subsequent promise to pay for the service, necessarily rests on the assumption that saving life and preservation of the body from harm have only a sentimental value.
It is a big pledge, and will be a big material benefit to working parents.
Speaking in Beijing on the second day of his five-day tour of China, the chancellor said the project in south-west England was "a win-win-win for the UK and … a great example of how the relationship with China has a direct material benefit to the people living in our country".
It defines smuggling of migrants as "the procurement, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit, of the illegal entry of a person into a state party of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident".
For example, Adam [ 24] who reported on one of the first analyses on informal patient payments, uses the term "gratuity for doctors" referring to "a financial or other material benefit, given to the doctor voluntary by a patient or his/her relatives after the treatment has been terminated".
I suggest that demonstrating a commitment to equal consumption (a hierarchy of virtue, not material benefit) generates trust and strengthens a better hunter's social networks, particularly for women, who cooperate more than men.
