gainful
profitable; lucrative: gainful employment.
Origin of gainful
1Other words from gainful
- gain·ful·ly, adverb
- gain·ful·ness, noun
- un·gain·ful, adjective
- un·gain·ful·ly, adverb
Words Nearby gainful
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How to use gainful in a sentence
One of the many positive effects of this law, is to allow people to regain their good name and gainful employment.
Oceanside Employee Alleging Treasurer Lost Millions in City Funds Was Previously Convicted of Burglary Using City’s Credit Card | Ashly McGlone and Tigist Layne | August 23, 2022 | Voice of San DiegoTo qualify for disability benefits from the SSA, an individual must show they have an impairment that prevents them from “substantial, gainful activity” that is expected to last at least 12 months or result in their death.
How COVID-19 Long Haulers Could Change the U.S. Disability Benefits System | Abigail Abrams | July 20, 2021 | TimeHe went to business school at the University of Chicago, spent 19 years working in finance and then gave up gainful employment to work for Humanitarian China, which he co-founded in 2007 to provide aid to families of political prisoners in China.
College gives way to the greater demands of grad school, gainful employment, and career planning.
gainful corporations have no such power unless it has been granted by their charter or by statute.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
The proportion of the population engaged in gainful occupation at the present time is significant.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyFor hospitals are not engaged in a gainful pursuit, regardless of all humanitarian considerations.
Making Both Ends Meet | Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith WyattThese convicts were transported by private shippers, and then sold into the colony; and thus it became a gainful enterprise.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 | George W. WilliamsRoughly speaking, Great Britain has twenty million persons in gainful pursuits.
Mobilizing Woman-Power | Harriot Stanton Blatch
British Dictionary definitions for gainful
/ (ˈɡeɪnfʊl) /
profitable; lucrative: gainful employment
Derived forms of gainful
- gainfully, adverb
- gainfulness, noun
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