51Թ

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gainful

[geyn-fuhl]

adjective

  1. profitable; lucrative.

    gainful employment.



gainful

/ ˈɡɪԴʊ /

adjective

  1. profitable; lucrative

    gainful employment

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • gainfully adverb
  • gainfulness noun
  • ungainful adjective
  • ungainfully adverb
  • ˈԴڳܱ adverb
  • ˈԴڳܱԱ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gainful1

First recorded in 1545–55; gain 1 + -ful
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The few companies which offer deportees gainful employment have become even more important to avoid a slide into criminality.

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So, accustomed to a regular paycheck from gainful employment for the previous 28 years, I was now a start-up, spelling a whole new ballgame.

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The bad news was that I had absolutely no idea how to find gainful employment.

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The Education Department’s gainful employment rule targets college programs that leave graduates with high debt compared to their expected earnings.

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"I ended up in another toxic, damaging relationship, lost hope of gainful employment and life got exponentially worse," she says.

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