gainfully employed
idiom
: provided with a job that pays wages or salary
She hasn't been gainfully employed for a few years.
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They may have been gainfully employed until an unexpected medical or other emergency depleted their funds.
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
But, his brother wrote, Stacy had become sober and was gainfully employed.
—Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2024
For example, workforce and job training programs are asked to report the percentage of their clients who become gainfully employed and retain their jobs after six months or a year.
—David C. Campbell, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
Decades later, the Atlas V lifts off with RD-180 engines built in Russia—which at the time of that rocket’s design outperformed anything comparable in the States and kept ex-Soviet rocket engineers gainfully employed.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 5 June 2024
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
But, his brother wrote, Stacy had become sober and was gainfully employed.
—Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2024
For example, workforce and job training programs are asked to report the percentage of their clients who become gainfully employed and retain their jobs after six months or a year.
—David C. Campbell, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
Decades later, the Atlas V lifts off with RD-180 engines built in Russia—which at the time of that rocket’s design outperformed anything comparable in the States and kept ex-Soviet rocket engineers gainfully employed.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 5 June 2024
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“Gainfully employed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gainfully%20employed. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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