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adjective
Date: 1972
established, maintained, or conducted for the purpose of making a profit <for-profit businesses>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
for-profit
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for-profit — for ˈprofit adjective [only before a noun] ECONOMICS COMMERCE a for profit organization is one which aims to make a profit: • The I.R.S. began to question the tax exempt status of some American not for profit hospitals. * * * for profit UK US… … Financial and business terms
for-profit — adjective BUSINESS a for profit organization aims to make a profit … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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for-profit — adj. For profit is used with these nouns: ↑corporation, ↑enterprise, ↑entity, ↑institution, ↑subsidiary … Collocations dictionary
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For-profit hospital — For profit hospitals, or alternatively investor owned hospitals, are investor owned chains of hospitals which have been established particularly in the United States during the late twentieth century. In contrast to the traditional and more… … Wikipedia
For-profit corporation — A for profit corporation is a corporation that is intended to operate a business which will return a profit to the owners. A for profit corporation, depending on the jurisdiction to which it is incorporated, may be operated either as a stock… … Wikipedia
for-profit — 1. adjective For the purpose of making money. 2. noun An organization whose goal is to make a profit … Wiktionary
