for-profit
adjective
for-prof·it
ˈfȯr-ˈprä-fət 
: established, maintained, or conducted for the purpose of making a profit
for-profit businesses
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BlueSky’s website claims the social media app is a Public Benefit Corporation, a type of for-profit company whose goals include positively impacting society.
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Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Without notifying Leggett, the county medical examiner provided his brother’s body to the Health Science Center, which shipped his remains out of state to a for-profit medical education company.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2025
The for-profit prison operator's name would later be changed to CoreCivic.
—Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Despite nearly all of their students coming from low-income families, the for-profit business has evaded most of the challenges that other providers face.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
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Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Without notifying Leggett, the county medical examiner provided his brother’s body to the Health Science Center, which shipped his remains out of state to a for-profit medical education company.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2025
The for-profit prison operator's name would later be changed to CoreCivic.
—Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Despite nearly all of their students coming from low-income families, the for-profit business has evaded most of the challenges that other providers face.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for for-profit
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“For-profit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for-profit. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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