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not-for-profit

adj

Etymology

From not + for-profit.

  1. derived from prōfectus
  2. derived from profit
  3. inherited from profit
  4. compounded as for-profit — “for + profit”
  5. compounded as not-for-profit — “not + for-profit”

Definitions

  1. Providing goods or services, but not for the purpose of making a profit.

    • 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[.]

  2. A not-for-profit company or organization.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at not-for-profit. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01not-for-profit02goods03bought04compromised05compromise06sensitive07faculty

A definitional loop anchored at not-for-profit. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at not-for-profit

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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