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Mike Faulk, a spokesperson for the Washington state attorney general’s office, said testimony in the minimum-wage issue highlights the problem with housing detainees in private prisons: profit motive.
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Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2025
That mattered less a decade ago, when college sports was big business but with virtually free labor and no profit motive.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Mar. 2025
But to make these technologies economically viable and scale them rapidly, policymakers will also have to tap into a much more powerful force: the profit motive.
—Fred Krupp, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
Similar to Taxpayer 4, Taxpayer 5 had no profit motive in making the transfer of IRA and non-IRA funds.
—Matthew Roberts, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2025
That mattered less a decade ago, when college sports was big business but with virtually free labor and no profit motive.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Mar. 2025
But to make these technologies economically viable and scale them rapidly, policymakers will also have to tap into a much more powerful force: the profit motive.
—Fred Krupp, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
Similar to Taxpayer 4, Taxpayer 5 had no profit motive in making the transfer of IRA and non-IRA funds.
—Matthew Roberts, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for profit motive
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“Profit motive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/profit%20motive. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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