English

Alternative forms

• forprofit

Adjective

for-profit ‎(not comparable)

1. (of an organization) For the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organisation that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.
   • 2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, vol. 37 no. 12:

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

Noun

for-profit ‎(plural for-profits)

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