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单词 gainful
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Definition of gainful in English:

gainful

adjective ˈɡeɪnf(ə)lˈɡeɪnfʊlˈɡeɪnfəl
  • attributive Serving to increase wealth or resources.

    he soon found gainful employment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If one looks at unemployment figures in the country it seems clear that modern labour markets can barely provide gainful employment to settled or even educated people.
    • The most common activities among those holdings with gainful activities directly related to the holding was contract work, tourism and other recreation activities.
    • If there is to be any hope of finding gainful employment for these people, the government needs to invest in programmes that improve basic literacy.
    • In this case, their activity would be considered as gainful work, provided the activity did not appear to be deliberately contrived to meet the scheme's requirements.
    • Letting those people have gainful employment is simply more important than not having to hang up on them when they call me, so I'm staying off the list.
    • Combining design and technology, web space is a blend of technical intellect and creativity - gainful employment for both sides of the brain.
    • Both former government soldiers and rebels warn that they might be forced back into a life of violence unless they are given gainful employment soon.
    • He's found some gainful employment in Flin Flon, Manitoba.
    • The centre also provides a work experience programme, which enables members of the travelling community to source gainful employment.
    • Another factor to consider under substantially gainful occupation is profitable but not productive.
    • While sedentary work represents a significantly restricted range of work, this range in itself is not so prohibitively restricted as to negate work capability for substantial gainful activity.
    • The unions usually object to prisoners being given gainful employment, whether sewing mailbags or breaking up rocks, on the grounds that it undercuts free labour.
    • Business is productive and gainful, and partnerships are supportive today.
    • The productive and gainful economic activity in India is still linked very much to agriculture as the primary sector of the economy.
    • In contrast, this training has given them gainful employment and, above all, recognition and self-confidence.
    • What is needed is gainful employment on a sustained basis.
    • But I am beginning to think that it's time for me to use some of the skills and knowledge I learned all those years ago, in some form of gainful employment.
    • However, if you are working at a level above substantial gainful activity and you are not eligible for a check you may be responsible for paying the Part B premium yourself.
    • How fortunate we are that someone is teaching this as opposed to foolishly wasting time teaching how to obtain and keep gainful employment.
    • But there I was, mindful of the conditional significance of maintaining gainful employment.
    Synonyms
    profitable, paid, well paid, remunerative, lucrative, moneymaking, financially rewarding
    rewarding, fruitful, worthwhile, useful, productive, constructive, beneficial, advantageous, valuable
    rare fructuous

Derivatives

  • gainfully

  • adverbˈɡeɪnfəliˈɡeɪnfʊliˈɡeɪnfəli
    • In a way that serves to increase wealth or resources.

      she's gainfully employed at the gallery
      these funds should be invested gainfully for growth
  • gainfulness

  • noun
    • That brave one and the slayer of braving enemies Lakshmana thus schooled expediently by his elder brother about the means of gainfulness, that best one among men proceeded to enter the city of Kishkindha.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The business should be characterized by stability, independence and gainfulness.
      • The performance necessitated and negotiated with it's audience, which vacillated between timidness and gainfulness, made uncomfortable and occasionally unsure, at other times overwhelmed with delight and misjudged expectations.
      • But several times and in several ways, Hamilton wrote that greed, the extreme face of the gainfulness at the heart of Hamiltonian capitalism, could destroy capitalism by moving individual entrepreneurs to extreme measures against the good of the many.
 
 

Definition of gainful in US English:

gainful

adjectiveˈɡānfəlˈɡeɪnfəl
  • Serving to increase wealth or resources; providing money or other benefit.

    he soon found gainful employment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Letting those people have gainful employment is simply more important than not having to hang up on them when they call me, so I'm staying off the list.
    • If one looks at unemployment figures in the country it seems clear that modern labour markets can barely provide gainful employment to settled or even educated people.
    • While sedentary work represents a significantly restricted range of work, this range in itself is not so prohibitively restricted as to negate work capability for substantial gainful activity.
    • How fortunate we are that someone is teaching this as opposed to foolishly wasting time teaching how to obtain and keep gainful employment.
    • But I am beginning to think that it's time for me to use some of the skills and knowledge I learned all those years ago, in some form of gainful employment.
    • The most common activities among those holdings with gainful activities directly related to the holding was contract work, tourism and other recreation activities.
    • The centre also provides a work experience programme, which enables members of the travelling community to source gainful employment.
    • What is needed is gainful employment on a sustained basis.
    • The productive and gainful economic activity in India is still linked very much to agriculture as the primary sector of the economy.
    • But there I was, mindful of the conditional significance of maintaining gainful employment.
    • Another factor to consider under substantially gainful occupation is profitable but not productive.
    • The unions usually object to prisoners being given gainful employment, whether sewing mailbags or breaking up rocks, on the grounds that it undercuts free labour.
    • If there is to be any hope of finding gainful employment for these people, the government needs to invest in programmes that improve basic literacy.
    • In this case, their activity would be considered as gainful work, provided the activity did not appear to be deliberately contrived to meet the scheme's requirements.
    • He's found some gainful employment in Flin Flon, Manitoba.
    • However, if you are working at a level above substantial gainful activity and you are not eligible for a check you may be responsible for paying the Part B premium yourself.
    • In contrast, this training has given them gainful employment and, above all, recognition and self-confidence.
    • Both former government soldiers and rebels warn that they might be forced back into a life of violence unless they are given gainful employment soon.
    • Business is productive and gainful, and partnerships are supportive today.
    • Combining design and technology, web space is a blend of technical intellect and creativity - gainful employment for both sides of the brain.
    Synonyms
    profitable, paid, well paid, remunerative, lucrative, moneymaking, financially rewarding
 
 
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