[ adv ] in a useful manner <adv.all> extra money could be usefully spent on this project
Usefully \Use"ful*ly\, adv. In a useful manner.
Responsibility and fun can usefully be combined there.
Even now, we can usefully surround them with a layer of gravel to sharpen drainage until spring. On a larger scale, I find the problem more perplexing.
In the first half of this year Japanese purchases of foreign bonds, in which the US usually accounts for a disproportionate share, were running at an annualised rate of Dollars 46.5bn, usefully higher than in 1992 and 1993.
Per capita, it is about what the West is currently providing usefully to Eastern Europe.
It was money we could not have usefully invested in our core business that has been used outside.
Companies in the building, brewing, textiles, engineering and industrial materials sectors could all usefully reduce their gearing.
Analysts could be just as usefully employed picking through the detail as plucking a few ripe strawberries out of the chairman's bowl at Wimbledon.
Shareholders might also usefully raise the question of why Kleinwort signed a severance agreement forbidding it to sue for redress.