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forprofit

forprofit is the alternative spelling of for-profit.

Meaning of for-profit

Adjective

for-profit (not comparable)

  1. 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

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Forms of forprofit

pluralforprofits

Questions about forprofit

What is forprofit the alternative spelling of?
Forprofit is the alternative spelling of for-profit.

Words near forprofit in the dictionary

  1. forpined
  2. forpines
  3. forpining
  4. forpit
  5. forpits
  6. forprofit
  7. forprofits
  8. Forquer
  9. Forquers
  10. Forquilha
  11. Forrabury

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forprofit (page history and authors); for-profit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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