for-profit

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See also: forprofit

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

for + profit; see earlier not-for-profit, non-profit.

Adjective

for-profit (not comparable)

  1. (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.
    Synonyms: commercial, profitable, profitmaking, profitseeking
    • 2014 October 1, Donnie Maclurcan, Jennifer Hinton, “Beyond capitalism: not-for-profit business ethos motivates sustainable behaviour”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      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[.]
    • 2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
      Florida being Florida, all that energetic for-profit concerns had to do was set up non-profit shell companies as nominal administrators.

Translations

Noun

for-profit (plural for-profits)

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