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gainfully

  • a word derived from gainful.
    gainful
    adjective
    profitable; lucrative.

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Gratefully, I live in a dual-income household where my spouse is gainfully employed and compensated well.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

“At Atoms we make gainfully employed robots—specialized robots with productive jobs that bring abundance to their owners and society at large,” Kalanick wrote on the company’s website.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

It would provide authorization to work and live here subject to certain conditions, including not committing crimes and staying gainfully employed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

At the center of this story is a gainfully employed layabout, an unnamed, possibly mythical “friend of a friend.”

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

Since he was gainfully employed by SNCC, had no outstanding debts and had plenty of cash in his wallet when arrested, the charge was groundless and, after a trial, had to be dropped.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman