profitable

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Earning money
assessable
bank
base pay
basic
basic income
disposable income
hand over fistidiom
in arrearsidiom
line your pocket(s)idiom
livelihood
make an honest livingidiom
performance-related
pro bono
pro rata
profit from something
prorate
pull
raise
revenue
sick pay

remunerative | Business English

remunerative
adjective[ usually before noun ]
 formaluk /rɪˈmjuːnərətɪv/us
paying a lot of money:
highly/less/more remunerativeThe deficits could lead central banks to move funds from the US to more stable and remunerative markets.
providing payment for work:
This policy preserves the option of remunerative work for workers with disabilities.

Examples of remunerative

remunerative
The most obvious policy ' lever ' suggested by this study for increasing the access of the poor to more remunerative wage labour is rural formal education.
The collection of colonial taxation was also directly remunerative for chiefs, who received a commission of some 10 per cent of what they collected.
If foreign donors contribute enough to make the establishment of property rights remunerative, the property rights will soon appear and be clarified.
Lack of transportation and communication infrastructure means that rural people there have difficulty finding remunerative opportunities even in neighbouring areas.
I use as a comparison group the 12 sample households engaged in remunerative, permanent wage-work.
They are most likely to be the firms who will train only when subsidies make it remunerative for them to do so.
They build the roads that give farmers cheaper fertilizer and more remunerative farm-gate sales.
The higher rate of schizophrenia among persons having no remunerative work is statistically significant.
He has not the experience to make the work very remunerative, so he still sleeps outside and leads rather a meagre existence.
This may reflect the low skill requirements for resource extraction activities, as well as the absence of more remunerative alternatives for uneducated households.
For these young people the likelihood of obtaining any form of legitimate remunerative employment is sparse.
By the 1960s, complaints were being expressed that wages payable to grounds maintenance and gravedigging staff were insufficiently remunerative to make such work appealing.
It is hard to imagine that all languages could be equally privileged in a country, and parents have a vested interest in ensuring that their children learn the remunerative ones.
The difference was that given the possibility of remunerative employment for their daughters many parents chose to keep them at home rather than giving them to another family in marriage.
Nor does it always offer very remunerative prices, since most of this produce is destined for sale to lower and middle class consumers, not supermarket shoppers.
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