Significados de engage in gainful en inglés

If, thinking to engage in gainful traffic, he hugged the shore with his little bark, the river-pirate snatched him up.

Altogether more than 8,000,000 women are engaged in gainful occupations in the United States.

The United States Census of 1890 shows that not quite four million women are " engaged in gainful occupations."

I would not seriously contend that females of gentle birth and breeding-ladiesin the essential sense-arenever engaged in gainful occupations-

The number of women covered was 857,743, and is just half of all the women engaged in gainful employment in those cities.