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nonprofits

nonprofits is the plural 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

Questions about nonprofits

What is nonprofits the plural of?
Nonprofits is the plural of nonprofit.

Words near nonprofits in the dictionary

  1. nonprofitability
  2. nonprofitable
  3. nonprofiteering
  4. nonprofiting
  5. nonprofitization
  6. nonprofits
  7. nonprognostic
  8. nonprogram
  9. nonprogrammable
  10. nonprogrammables
  11. nonprogrammatic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonprofits (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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