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non-profit

non-profit is the alternative form of nonprofit.

Meaning of nonprofit

Adjective

nonprofit (not comparable)

  1. Not seeking to produce a profit (a financial gain).
    • Here in New York, plush rehabilitation centers literally canvass for big-paying clients whose insurance will cover the average $11,000 to $14,000 cost for a month's treatment. Meanwhile, there are only 12,000 non-profit treatment beds in the state for a conservatively estimated 350,000 addicts.1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5
    Antonyms:
    for-profit

Forms of non-profit

pluralnon-profits

Questions about non-profit

What is non-profit the alternative form of?
Non-profit is the alternative form of nonprofit.

Words near non-profit in the dictionary

  1. non-producer
  2. non-producers
  3. non-productive
  4. non-professional
  5. non-professionals
  6. non-profit
  7. non-profit-making
  8. non-profitable
  9. non-profits
  10. non-programmer
  11. non-programmers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-profit (page history and authors); nonprofit (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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