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gainful
adjective as in very productive, profitable
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College gives way to the greater demands of grad school, gainful employment, and career planning.
Gainful corporations have no such power unless it has been granted by their charter or by statute.
The proportion of the population engaged in gainful occupation at the present time is significant.
For hospitals are not engaged in a gainful pursuit, regardless of all humanitarian considerations.
These convicts were transported by private shippers, and then sold into the colony; and thus it became a gainful enterprise.
Roughly speaking, Great Britain has twenty million persons in gainful pursuits.
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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gainful, such as: advantageous, beneficial, fat, fruitful, generous, and going.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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