Значения для термина "engage in gainful" отсутствуют.
1 If, thinking to engage in gainful traffic, he hugged the shore with his little bark, the river-pirate snatched him up.
2 Altogether more than 8,000,000 women are engaged in gainful occupations in the United States.
3 The United States Census of 1890 shows that not quite four million women are " engaged in gainful occupations."
4 I would not seriously contend that females of gentle birth and breeding-ladiesin the essential sense-arenever engaged in gainful occupations-
5 The number of women covered was 857,743, and is just half of all the women engaged in gainful employment in those cities.
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