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useful
ADJECTIVE:

1. being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect: 
a useful member of society.

2. of practical use, as for doing work; producing material results; supplying common needs: 
the useful arts; useful work.

3. able to be used advantageously, beneficially, or for several purposes; helpful or serviceable.

4. capable of being put to use, especially serviceable for an end or purpose:
useful tools.

5. of a valuable or productive kind: 
do something useful with your life.

Examples:

Does anyone have any useful suggestions? // It can be useful to know CPR. —Merriam-Webster.

informal: 

1. commendable or capable:
a useful term's work.

2. Australian. an odd-jobman or general factotum.

Origin:

First recorded in 1585–95; use + -ful. —Dictionary.com * // First Known Use of useful: 1595. —Merriam-Webster * 

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