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for-profit en · ADJ

Etymology

From for + profit; see the earlier not-for-profit and nonprofit.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, of an organization) For the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.
   • Florida being Florida, all that energetic for-profit concerns had to do was set up non-profit shell companies as nominal administrators. 2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
   • For-profit capitalism has created social and economic inequality; successful not-for-profit businesses including Mozilla and the Big Issue point to an alternative path[.] 2014 October 1, Donnie Maclurcan, Jennifer Hinton, “Beyond capitalism: not-for-profit business ethos motivates sustainable behaviour”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

Synonyms

commercial · profitable · profitseeking · profitmaking

Translations (8)

hu nyereségérdekelt (for the purpose of making money) · de gewinnorientiert (for the purpose of making money) · cmn 贏利 /赢利 (for the purpose of making money) · pl komercyjny (for the purpose of making money) · ja 営利の (for the purpose of making money) · hu forprofit (for the purpose of making money) · hu nyereségorientált (for the purpose of making money) · cmn 營利 /营利 (for the purpose of making money)

for-profit en · NOUN

Etymology

From for + profit; see the earlier not-for-profit and nonprofit.

Meanings

1. An organization whose goal is to make a profit.

Forms