remuneratively love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • So as to remunerate; in a remunerative manner; so as to afford an equivalent for what has been expended.

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Examples

  • "Powerful considerations in the public interest would need to be demonstrated to justify any legislative provision that might give any incentive to judicial officers to look to earn favour from the executive branch of government in order to be more likely to be permitted to use their talents remuneratively after retirement."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • In spite of their remote location they pay about the highest agricultural wages in the world and sell their products remuneratively in markets ten thousand miles away or more.

    Canadian Trade—Handle With Care 1959

  • East, where truck-farming and chicken-raising can be made very remuneratively, Italians have established themselves on the small farms abandoned by the children of Americans who go to the city.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • In order to remuneratively employ the applicants, Parish, District,

    British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909

  • Baxendale retired from business after his marriage, and invested his capital as remuneratively as security permitted.

    War-time Silhouettes Stephen Hudson 1906

  • And these antiquated methods of manufacture and transportation were all the more at variance with the needs and possibilities of the time because there had been, as already pointed out, a steady accumulation of capital, and much of it was not remuneratively employed.

    An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904

  • Australia to become a prosperous colony; and provided he is not afraid to rough it, there is no part of Australia in which a capitalist -- whether large or small -- can more remuneratively settle than in this out of the way part of the world; and this I say after having myself temporarily lost heavily there.

    Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886

  • Surely a little money invested in decent dwellings for such people would be well and even remuneratively spent.

    Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869

  • Still holding to the wholesome principle that "woman is not undeveloped man, but diverse," the real friends of the gentler sex discovered a hundred and one ways in which it could employ itself usefully and remuneratively.

    Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869

  • It was late in the week, and I was also afforded the chance of cooking the thing up remuneratively for two or three weekly papers.

    The Secrets of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

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