英:['ɡeɪnfəlɪ]
美:['ɡeɪnfəlɪ]
英:['ɡeɪnfəlɪ]
美:['ɡeɪnfəlɪ]
Adverb
1. in a gainful way;
"are you gainfully employed now?"
gain >entry 1 + -ful >entry 1
The first known use of gainful was in 1553
gainsayverb
to declare untrue : deny
to speak against : contradict
gainsayverb
to declare untrue : deny
to speak against : contradict
gainfuladjective
producing gain : making money
gainful employment
1 “The Pentagon assesses that they don’t have any excess Abrams … that all of them are gainfully employed for our own national security defense,” Kirby said.
2 That leaves the more narrow band of gainfully employed Gen Xers to carry the brunt of wine demand.
3 “I chose to dress preppy because that way I could pass, “ he said — gain entry, that is, into the button-down world of the gainfully employed.
4 Until five years ago McCarthy, born and raised in Plainfield, Illinois, was gainfully employed but not much noticed.
5 Meanwhile, you need to accept a part-time job to keep yourself gainfully employed.
同时,你也需要给自己找份业余工作以保证自己有所收入。
6 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.
7 "When people are gainfully employed, they are more invested in their city."
8 Both have graduate degrees, are gainfully employed, live on their own and are in what seem to be healthy relationships.
9 It’s a high — though not impossible — hurdle to write a critical exploration of the fashion industry while one remains gainfully employed within it.
10 “Auto-pay is not for convenience, it’s for the gainfully employed,” she said while having her makeup and hair done for the New York leg of the show last week.
11 The fact that it’s then replaced by a vicious reality show, well, let’s just say that in this future, Mark Burnett would be gainfully employed.
12 “Because I was gainfully employed, I could buy a lot of art,” he said.
13 If I stay, I’m gainfully employ on a salary ain even startin to be a minimal wage.”
14 In the last week or so, the White House has announced key student loan relief for three specific groups: disabled people who are unable to find gainful employment, former or current active-duty military members and people defrauded by the schools that got their loan money.
15 Yet they suggested a reason beyond mere need not to drop out altogether and to redouble one’s efforts to join the system and become gainfully employed.
16 graduated from school and went looking for gainful employment
17 I met Wainwright in 2006, when I was reporting for a column on summer jobs programs and heard about his efforts to find jobs for kids from families where no one else was gainfully employed.
18 Both parents were gainfully employed.
父母都是工薪阶层。
19 It follows Edwards from The Knick to the distinct subculture of the African American boarding house where he, though a gainfully employed professional, lives with working-class roomers who see him as an elitist snob.
20 Dear Carolyn: When my wife and I got engaged 17 years ago, she was a healthy, cheerful, gainfully employed young lady.