Meaning:
Believing someone despite any doubts you may have.
Examples:
- Allow to have something, grant:Give the benefit of the doubt.
- Who would you give the benefit of the doubt to?
- Let's say I give the benefit of the doubt.
- And we all give the benefit of the doubt to our own.
- Right now, I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to family.
- In spite of all the adversities, the Salvadorans give the benefit of the doubt to the team of the present administration.
- The question we must ask, however, is why we should give the benefit of the doubt to a country experiencing such fundamental problems with democracy as corruption and a failure to protect the freedom of the press.