gainfully employed
idiom
: provided with a job that pays wages or salary
She hasn't been gainfully employed for a few years.
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Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
Affleck revealed that Violet, who is a freshman at Yale University, and high school student, Fin, are both already gainfully employed.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Matthew McConaughey Maybe just maybe, football is an Uber Eats conspiracy to keep this dude gainfully employed?
12.
—Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2025
Their daughter, two years out of college and gainfully employed, lives with them.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Gainfully employed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gainfully%20employed. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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