Remunerative
[rɪ'mjuːn(ə)rətɪv] or [rɪ'mjunərətɪv]
Definition
(a.) Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Profitable, paying, gainful, paying a good interest, bringing a good return.
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Examples
- I hope it may prove remunerative. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was a hasty selling off, by the business government in control, of every remunerative public enterprise to private speculators. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The use of salicylic acid will thus be found highly remunerative to all tanners, as it has proved in the industries already alluded to. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This expenditure bankrupted them, as the machines were not at once remunerative, and parliament refused to grant them pecuniary assistance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Commission to the extent of two and ninepence in a fortnight cannot, however limited our ideas, be considered remunerative. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Boots and Brewer regard this as a man to be cultivated; and Veneering is clear that he is a remunerative article. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Veneering may find this dining, though expensive, remunerative, in the sense that it makes champions. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For corn,' said Mrs. Micawber argumentatively, 'as I have repeatedly said to Mr. Micawber, may be gentlemanly, but it is not remunerative. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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