gainfully
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4.0
- adverb
- /ˈɡeɪn.fəl.i/
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rentablemente
- After graduating, she quickly found a job and is now gainfully employed at a tech company.
- gainfully employed
Some of you guys are going to, you know, be gainfully employed.
- Some of you guys are going to, you know, be gainfully employed.
- The, the workers only are workers as long as they're gainfully employed.
- People who have a meaningful work and are gainfully employed are at decreased risk of becoming addicted.
- So that's how I basically ended that summer and, you know, kept my fiance and her family off my back because I was gainfully employed.
Examples
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Consider how difficult it is for young people to become gainfully employed today.
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In practice, parental insurance has been an incentive for women to be gainfully employed before they get pregnant.
Academic text (1991) -
I finally have an interview tomorrow morning, and with any luck, I will once again become gainfully employed!
Blog text (20) -
We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system.
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The supervisor went on: "Essentially, do what you got to do to stay gainfully employed."
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Peace would run rampant, education would be open to all, and the poor would be gainfully employed!
Fiction book (1991) -
Until there are gainfully employed workers with disposable income, this decade is lost.
Blog text (5) -
That means sane, sober and gainfully employed.
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Temple Street near the docks was the meeting place of the gainfully employed and the desperately unemployed.
Fiction book (2000) -
For example, millions of people used to be gainfully employed shuffling paper, and communications networks have eliminated those jobs.
Blog text (32)
Synonyms
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4.1
In a way that makes money or gives an advantage
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5.2
In a way that gives you a benefit or helps you succeed
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4.1
In a way that helps and makes things better
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5.3
To make a lot of money
In a way that gives a lot of money
Antonyms
How Profitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word gainfully starts with gain, which means 'to get', and adds -ful, meaning 'full of', like in helpful, plus -ly to show how something is done, so gainfully means doing something in a way that 'gets' you money.