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be gainfully employed
verb as in earn
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verb as in work
Example Sentences
With the injury his daughter sustained, Preciado said, “I don’t really know that she’ll be effective to the point that she can be gainfully employed anywhere, let alone law enforcement.”
The court also held that the woman's domestic labour contributed indirectly to earning the money that enabled the purchase of the assets and that her work allowed the husband to be gainfully employed.
Philip Dawdy, 58, a veteran political lobbyist from Seattle, says he hasn’t found any new lobbying work since the pandemic started, and now fears “not being gainfully employed again — or even having an opportunity to be gainfully employed.”
Offices — getting up and going to one — came to seem like a fairly abstract proposition during the past year-and-change, at least among those of us fortunate enough to be gainfully employed.
We’re grateful to both be gainfully employed with savings, and we have a financial planner who’s confident in our ability to afford a fruitful future.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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