gainful
With two daughters now living independently, I need to fill my time gainfully
From the hotel you can walk gainfully in any direction.
They are cutting back on staff as they feel the money could be more gainfully spent.

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Examples of gainfully

gainfully
Table 2 demonstrates that around 60 per cent of the members of workers' households were gainfully employed.
The majority of the gainfully employed were hired by the state.
In 1970 invalids and full-time students comprised the absolute majority of those of working age who were not gainfully employed.
The prematurity rate was 4-7 for housewives and 11-1 for women gainfully employed for 28 weeks or more of pregnancy.
The gainfully employed are further subdivided into employed and self-employed labour.
The neocortex and its interactions with the thalamus will keep many of us gainfully occupied for many years to come.
By the end of the period the percentage of gainfully employed women was almost as large as that among men.
Both gainfully employed and non-employed members of households could work on these plots.
A ' phase of reproduction ' of the metropolitan model was gainfully followed by reinvention of policy in a local context.
Many more men were gainfully employed than women.
The tables distinguish between the gainfully employed and those who were maintained by others or the state, or, more rarely, those who were self-supporting.
In contrast, when they are not ' gainfully employed ' they are seen as dependent, and lack status in society.
Most of the respondents (77.3 %) were gainfully employed.
In general, the census data allow one to suppose that the increase in the proportion of gainfully employed urban citizens continued during the whole period under study.
Even among men over 70 more than 40 per cent were gainfully employed, which reflects the absence of a system of pensions and compulsory retirement in this period.
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