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Meanings of engage in gainful in English

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Usage of engage in gainful in English
1
If, thinking to engage in gainful traffic, he hugged the shore with his little bark, the river-pirate snatched him up.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 / A Mag...
2
Altogether more than 8,000,000 women are engaged in gainful occupations in the United States.
Problems in American Democracy
3
The United States Census of 1890 shows that not quite four million women are " engaged in gainful occupations."
Woman and the Republic / A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement...
4
I would not seriously contend that females of gentle birth and breeding-ladiesin the essential sense-arenever engaged in gainful occupations-
Queed: A Novel
5
The number of women covered was 857,743, and is just half of all the women engaged in gainful employment in those cities.
The Trade Union Woman