gainfuladjective
uk/ˈɡeɪn.fəl/us/ˈɡeɪn.fəl/formalproviding money or something else that is useful:
Many graduates tell of months spent in search of gainful employment.
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Earning money
- bank
- base pay
- be quids in idiom
- black money
- blast
- bread
- bread and butter
- breadwinner
- bring sth in
- danger money
- draw
- earn
- fundraiser
- honorarium
- hustle
- income
- money for old rope idiom
- payday
- strike pay
- venal
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Useful or advantageous
gainfully
adverb uk/ˈɡeɪn.fəl.i/us/ˈɡeɪn.fəl.i/
His estate continues to keep lawyers gainfully employed even seven years after his death.