[ UK /ɡˈe‍ɪnfə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈɡeɪnfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. yielding a fair profit
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How To Use gainful In A Sentence

  • SOCRATES: The words axumphoron (inexpedient), anopheles (unprofitable), alusiteles (unadvantageous), akerdes (ungainful). Cratylus
  • I ` m not too chuffed that Jackie is still in gainful employment since the recent revelations about Damian Green etc, something which didn ` t seem to get a mention on the BBC tonight. Credit Crunch? More Senior Officers; that’s what we need! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • In each decade of the twentieth century, fewer men over 65 have been entered in the censuses as in gainful employment.
  • A gift (as opposed to gainful employment) allows his best friend, Captain Haddock, to buy back his family's ancestral mansion.
  • Among these gainfully employed canines, there's a range of occupations, from seeing-eye and guard dogs to sheep herders and hunting dogs.
  • Indeed, it has even become fashionable for women to choose dependency by repudiating ambition and gainful employment once they have children.
  • Many graduates tell of months spent in search of gainful employment.
  • They can be expelled only if they have no gainful employment after three months. Times, Sunday Times
  • The procedure of looking for aforesaid gainful employment is generally simple.
  • The happy start of the story occurred somewhere during the peaceful "belonging" stage of being gainfully employed. The Surreal Office
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