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The word 'gainfully' is correct and usable in written English.
It means to do something in a way that brings financial gain or benefit. It is commonly used in formal or professional writing. Example: The company's new marketing strategy proved to be highly effective, as they were able to gainfully increase their profits by 20%.
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gainfully
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In a gainful manner; profitably.
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If you're an American, it's a price that has resulted in a recession and recovery characterized by historically high poverty – with 42 million Americans on food stamps – and historically low rates of Americans working, with only 63% of the population gainfully employed.
That sound you just heard in the background was a cry of anguish involuntarily springing from the lips of Lost in Showbiz, as it once more considered its lot in life and the stark contrast it presents to that of the men and women gainfully employed as service providers to people with more money than sense.
If he wants to be closer to home, Amazon is one of the few places that can keep him gainfully employed and no doubt throw a ton of cash at him.
I've stayed gainfully employed, but I wouldn't say I've done anything remarkable in any job.
The emerging markets are first in the queue for supplies because they are often able to use each extra barrel of oil or shipload of ore more gainfully.
Indeed, they may find themselves slave to the scribblings of a different dead economist, Keynes's intellectual foe, Friedrich Hayek.Whereas Keynes worried about inadequate investment too little entrepreneurial spending to keep everyone gainfully employed—Hayek worried about bad investment.
Good teachers decrease the chance that kids will become pregnant as teenagers, increase the chances that they'll go to college, increase the chances that they'll be gainfully employed.
And Ford, which along with its subsidiary Mazda already owns nearly 17% of Kia, wants the rest of the company in order to use its factories as an Asian production base.In this section One-and-a-half Nelson Reliance on the wrong strategy The burning issue Can America's workforce grow old gainfully?
Nepal's civil aviation authority has approved 97 landing and take-off sites for helicopters.In this section One-and-a-half Nelson Reliance on the wrong strategy The burning issue Can America's workforce grow old gainfully?
This has given Nosecho the unpleasant distinction of having the highest recorded dioxin concentration in the world.In this section One-and-a-half Nelson Reliance on the wrong strategy The burning issue Can America's workforce grow old gainfully?
New figures suggest that the second part of the policy may be undermining the first.Behind the government's conviction that people should borrow money to cover the costs of their higher education and pay it back when they are gainfully employed is the assumption that graduates earn much more than non-graduates.
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