Gainful
Definition of Gainful:
part of speech: adverb
GAINFULLY.
part of speech: adjective
part of speech: adjective
Yielding profit; advantageous.
part of speech: noun
GAINFULNESS.
Usage examples for Gainful:
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Altogether more than 8, 000, 000 women are engaged in gainful occupations in the United States.
"Problems in American Democracy", Thames Ross Williamson. -
The avarice of our parents, who both had more gainful views for us, prevented an union on which our happiness depended.
"The History of Emily Montague", Frances Brooke. -
This was for several years so gainful a business to the Settlement, as to cause it to be proverbial in the West Indies; that 'Shipwrecks and Pirates were the only hopes of the Island Providence.
"History of the Buccaneers of America", James Burney.