A remunerative business. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : remunerative work. From Dictionary.com.
The terms of nearly every immigration status, at least at the early stages, prohibit engaging in remunerative activity without authorization to work. From Wordnik.com. [Retiring Abroad - Why Not?] Reference
Unless these so called remunerative projects earn any revenue which could be kept as. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Why didn’t another term for remunerative and likely career-oriented activity gain such worldwide use?. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
A donation is called remunerative when inspired by a sentiment of gratitude for services rendered by the donee. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
His adventures had succeeded, both in quality of patient care, and what are termed remunerative and secure bank investments. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
In addition, surveying proved highly remunerative. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORY: 1776--WASHINGTON'S WAR] Reference
As a side line on pleasure trips it is sometimes remunerative. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
Only one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's books had a remunerative sale. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
He entered upon it in affluence, with a large and remunerative practice. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
These three commodities form the most remunerative products of the farm. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
This thing is true in all the remunerative avenues of life in the North. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
As yet, however, the traffic was lacking to make the enterprise remunerative. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
I certainly would have preferred that job as it was more remunerative than the one. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
It's just a matter of choosing which one seems the most remunerative - to the soul, of course, I mean. From Wordnik.com. [For Kevin Kline, The Beard's (Sometimes) The Thing] Reference
But the author's real goal is "no longer good writing, so much as remunerative picture possibilities.". From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
It will probably advance as fast as sugar cultivation is receding, and command a good remunerative price. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The profession of poetry, inspiring as it is, is not -- not exactly remunerative; not -- not in a large way. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Korolenko was much interested in Gorki, but was unable at that time to offer the young writer any remunerative work. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
I presume a lens made in this way is worth about a shilling, so that laboratory manufacture is not very remunerative. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
A qualified "sick-gymnast" often gets a remunerative practice, and may make an annual income of 10,000 marks or more. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
In this way the young woman in this occupation will become fitted to hold the most responsible and remunerative posts. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
These, like all other American steamers when unemployed on mail lines, generally lie in port for want of a remunerative trade. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
The boy had no income of his own, no profession, and his father's influence prevented his obtaining any remunerative position. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
They succeeded in destroying millions of immature trout and other fish, and ruining completely a remunerative and useful industry. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Large numbers of the ex-soldiers drifted West and were glad to find steady work at remunerative wages with the construction forces. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History] Reference
If proper precautions are taken by buyers, municipal securities may be considered among the safest and most remunerative investments. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
It is sufficiently remunerative even when all food has to be purchased on the open market to justify attention being devoted to raising alone. From Wordnik.com. [Australia, The Dairy Country] Reference
Physical research is too difficult in itself, and students 'time is too valuable, for it to be remunerative to work with insufficient appliances. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Any young man or woman of ordinary ability, having a practical knowledge of the use of this machine may find constant and remunerative employment. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
How far it will prove remunerative we shall not be able to determine until the steamers shall have run through one or two winters as well as summers. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
The magical mollusk, whose fantastic football forecasting made him a worldwide celebrity, may be preparing to cash in on his remunerative reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Paul The Octopus Hires Agent (PHOTOS)] Reference
Capital finds that labor is of better quality, and consequently more remunerative in every sense, if the environment is conducive to happiness and health. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Numerous semi-religious and slightly remunerative functions were accessible to clerks, who were not, however, obliged to renounce the world on that account. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
It will appear from a very elementary calculation of what we may call the theoretical costs that the above selling price would not have a remunerative margin. From Wordnik.com. [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference
Curiously, her own father provided the intelligence that resulted in the death of both his daughter and her ruthless husband likely for remunerative allurements. From Wordnik.com. [C. Christine Fair: Drones Over Pakistan -- Menace or Best Viable Option?] Reference
The practice at one time had at least the merit of novelty, but since it has become a regular thing it has lost much of its efficacy and ceased to be remunerative. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
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