for-profit
Americanadjective
Compare meaning
How does for-profit compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A private for-profit company, American Advanced Management, swooped to the rescue of Glenn Medical and a nearby hospital in Colusa County, buying them and keeping them open.
From Los Angeles Times
Atlanta officials think that with for-profit supermarket management they can avoid the failures of some other government grocery experiments.
It currently has a 27% stake in OpenAI after the AI-model provider’s transition to a for-profit business.
From MarketWatch
He once ran HCA, the country’s largest for-profit health care company — until he resigned in 1997 during a federal investigation.
From Salon
We explicitly tax for-profit corporations — and the likes of Amazon, Nike, and FedEx still manage to avoid paying all federal taxes, resulting in billions of dollars in lost revenue.
From Salon
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
