for-profit

alternative forprofit

1. not comparablebusinessFor the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.

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

   2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12

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   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[.]

   2014 October 1, Donnie Maclurcan, Jennifer Hinton, “Beyond capitalism: not-for-profit business ethos motivates sustainable behaviour”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: commercial, profitable, profitmaking, profitseeking

plural for-profits · alternative forprofit

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