lucrative employment
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflucrativeandemployment
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lucrative
adjective
uk/ˈluː.krə.tɪv/us/ˈluː.krə.t̬ɪv/
(especially of a business, job, or activity) producing a lot ...
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employment
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition oflucrativeandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I cannot say how many resigned to take up morelucrativeemploymentoutside.
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If their judicial income is insufficient, they are likely to abandon their posts in favor of morelucrativeemployment.
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Those who cannot afford either will be ghettoized and barred fromlucrativeemploymentworldwide.
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I do not think that it opens the doors to any morelucrativeemployment.
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He has given up the best years of his life to political service, and is consequently entirely unfitted for any other form oflucrativeemployment.
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In the years since 1986 the father has been inlucrativeemployment—and at the same address (owner of a large detached house).
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I cannot say how many resigned to take up morelucrativeemploymentoutside.
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Men were leaving the industry rapidly to find morelucrativeemployment.
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Once we have achieved the promotion oflucrativeemploymentfor those areas of low production, the larger part of the battle has already been won.
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I suppose he has crossed the border to find morelucrativeemploymentelsewhere.
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Obviously, some service men have left for better or morelucrativeemployment.
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There are, of course, those very fortunate senior civil servants who takelucrativeemploymenton their retirement.
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It will certainly providelucrativeemploymentfor the legal profession.
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Ordinary railwaymen look to the industry for their livelihood, in constrast to taking five years' leave from anotherlucrativeemployment.
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They had either to become civilians or to return as private soldiers to their units and give uplucrativeemployment.
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He may say that anybody is now liable to be called up for military service and may have to give up verylucrativeemploymentand be placed in the ranks.
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They cannot be foundlucrativeemploymentelsewhere.
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School dental officers are leaving the service to take up morelucrativeemploymentin private practice.
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There he stayed until 1825, findinglucrativeemploymentin painting portraits and landscapes.
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