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  • 21employ — v. 1) to employ gainfully 2) (D; tr.) to employ as (she was employed as a programmer) * * * [ɪm plɔɪ] to employ gainfully (D; tr.) to employ as (she was employed as a programmer) …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 22gainful — gain|ful [ˈgeınfəl] adj gainful employment/work/activity formal work or activity for which you are paid >gainfully adv ▪ gainfully employed …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 23gainful — (adj.) 1540s (implied in gainfully), from GAIN (Cf. gain) + FUL (Cf. ful). Phrase gainfully employed attested from 1796 …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 24gainful — [[t]ge͟ɪnfʊl[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n If you are in gainful employment, you have a job for which you are paid. [FORMAL] The lack of money comes from lack of opportunities for gainful employment. Derived words: gainfully ADV ADV ed Both parents were… …

    English dictionary

  • 25gainful — adjective gainful employment/work/activity formal work or activity for which you are paid gainfully adverb: gainfully employed …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26gainful — UK [ˈɡeɪnf(ə)l] / US [ˈɡeɪnfəl] adjective [usually before noun] formal providing money or profit Derived word: gainfully adverb gainfully employed …

    English dictionary

  • 27NEW YORK CITY — NEW YORK CITY, foremost city of the Western Hemisphere and largest urban Jewish community in history; pop. 7,771,730 (1970), est. Jewish pop. 1,836,000 (1968); metropolitan area 11,448,480 (1970), metropolitan area Jewish (1968), 2,381,000… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 28TRADE AND COMMERCE — In the Bible The geopolitical location of Palestine, set as it is in the heart of the Fertile Crescent, made it a pivotal link in the commercial activities carried on by land and sea between, on the one hand, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula in… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 29gainful — adjective Date: 1553 productive of gain ; profitable < gainful employment > • gainfully adverb • gainfulness noun …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 30City — For other uses, see City (disambiguation). Shanghai is the most populous city proper in the world …

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