However, the experience gained in construction work would be valuable, and the time could be profitably employed In fitting the right men into the right places.

Additional resources are also attracted into production and can be profitably employed.

Afterwards, though the boat continued to be profitably employed, somehow or other all her earnings were consumed in repairs, &c., and for several years I never received a penny for my shares.

Though he was profitably employed as a professional model, he has stated that he was generally dissatisfied with his identity and existence, and "was not loving life".

Capital that cannot be profitably employed is used for share buybacks.

This excellent powder is dissolved in a moist place into a liquid which is profitably employed as a painless agent in surgery.

Without doubt, there were students present who justified their teacher's wisdom in introducing them to these studies; but the fact is also evident that others had been pushed into these studies to waste their time over them when they could have been profitably employed in hunting smaller game.

The two first-named steamers were profitably employed by the British government during the Crimean War.

And in the time it takes me to accomplish the errand you may be profitably employed in locating Murph.

For example, a machine may be profitably employed in a business but no more than scrap value could be obtained from its sale (net selling price).