Definition of remunerativenext
as in lucrative
yielding a profit made a highly remunerative investment that will end up paying my college tuition

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Recent Examples of remunerative The job was not remunerative and there was no job security. Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025 Over the next few years Trump will have major influence over antitrust policy, the development and use of artificial intelligence and the growth and prevalence of cryptocurrency, to name just some of the issues of vital and remunerative interest to the tech industry. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025 At the same time, a growing chorus of policy wonks and public officials, including yours truly, have argued that Americans shouldn’t have to buy a college degree in order to find remunerative employment. Frederick Hess, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 Stable, remunerative employment reinforces good habits and discourages bad ones. Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020 See All Example Sentences for remunerative
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Adjective
  • While the $52M mark is a 4% drop from the previous week, and about 7% down from the same time – Week 32 – last year, those slips reflect the always-lucrative Christmas week highs (Christmas fell within Week 32 last season).
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
  • But she was fired from her lucrative job in New York, and is forced to move back in with her mother, who lives in Utah in a house that Bea pays for.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
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  • The Yahoo Boys promises to be an in-depth work of narrative nonfiction that explores the material conditions that make these scams profitable, and the lives of four such scammers in Lagos, Nigeria.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • But the Fed seems to view its job as ensuring that banks are profitable, even if that comes at the expense of people living in precarity.
    Aaron Klein, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026

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“Remunerative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remunerative. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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