gainfully

gainful | Business English

gainful
adjective[ only before noun ]
uk /ˈɡeɪnfəl/us
providing something useful such as money or work:
The state is making great efforts to guide former welfare recipients into gainful employment.

gainfully

adverb
As those of you who are gainfully employed will know, getting a new job can be a full-time job in itself.

Examples of gainful

gainful
If the attacks upon property are but light, the stoppage of gainful activity is correspondingly slight.
In summary, a comparison of the data on gainful employment from the 1926 and 1939 population censuses reveals two main trends.
There, for clear regulatory reasons, all gainful employment was allowed without loss of benefits. 37.
Foremost, he was poor: he never held gainful employment, surviving on donations.
Self-employment, targeted by state repression from the late 1920s, practically disappeared, leaving paid employment as the only viable form of gainful employment.
The farm family obtains scope for gainful employment the year round thereby ensuring a reasonable income and higher standard of living.
Many expressed hopes that the experience would help them find other gainful employment.
This same insurance will be required as a condition for gainful employment beyond minimum wage.
By decommodification, he means governmental social insurance, assistance, and services that render people less critically dependent on gainful employment.
Tables 11 and 12 characterize the gainful employment of the children of the head of household between 0 and 25 years of age in 1926.
So far this surge of livelihood ' multiplexity ' has not generated adequate overall levels of gainful employment, technical innovation, purchasing power or welfare improvement.
Wanting to develop as a teacher has an obvious relationship with whether the long-term prospects for gainful employment appear rosy or bleak.
However, although often so portrayed, it was not a society of universal employment where all able-bodied members of working age derived their income from gainful employment.
Table 11 sets out the percentage of sons and daughters in gainful employment according to whether they were employed or self-employed and the nature of that employment.
The most important difference between men and women, except for the generally lower levels of labour participation among women, had to do with patterns of gainful employment among the elderly.
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