for-profit
for-profit adjective: for the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.
Adjective
for-profit (not comparable)
- For the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.
- 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
- 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
- Synonyms:
- commercial, profitable, profitmaking, profitseeking
Noun
for-profit (plural for-profits)
- An organization whose goal is to make a profit.
Synonyms of for-profit
Forms of for-profit
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | forprofit |
| Noun | |
| plural | for-profits |
Origin of for-profit
From for + profit; see the earlier not-for-profit and nonprofit.
Questions about for-profit
- What does for-profit mean?
- For-profit means for the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.
- What part of speech is for-profit?
- For-profit can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near for-profit in the dictionary
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