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 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 While those with investments in the stock market see the ongoing rout as a sign to cut their losses and move money to safer, more remunerative markets. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024 But teaching hospitals typically pay residents and fellows the same stipend for each year of training, regardless of specialty, financially incentivizing hospitals to train doctors in more remunerative specialties. Abraham Nussbaum and Renee Y. Hsia, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for remunerative
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  • Dynamic is his attempt to bring that system to the U.S. Most of the kids at Dynamic won’t make the N.B.A., but all of them could play for major college programs—and big-time college basketball is a lucrative endeavor in itself.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Additionally, hospitals strategically manage their patient mix to game the 340B eligibility criteria and expand into wealthier neighborhoods to capture lucrative outpatient drug margins.
    Ge Bai, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
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  • Knowing where your food comes from is a privilege worth paying for if one can, and tracking its journey, from field to fork, is a profitable business.
    Shain Shapiro, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Parks aren’t profitable, museums are empty, and the fine citizens of DUMBO just honk their horns at each other when a massive herbivore escapes from the zoo for a nap under the Brooklyn Bridge.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 June 2025

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“Remunerative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remunerative. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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