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for-profit

adj

Etymology

From for + profit; see the earlier not-for-profit and nonprofit.

  1. derived from prōfectus
  2. derived from profit
  3. inherited from profit
  4. compounded as for-profit — “for + profit”

Definitions

  1. For the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not…

    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[.]
    • Florida being Florida, all that energetic for-profit concerns had to do was set up non-profit shell companies as nominal administrators.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for for-profit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA