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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In others, corpses were sent to medical schools, biotech companies and for-profit body brokers without consent.
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Anagilmara Vílchez, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Health insurance companies, insurance benefit managers, for-profit hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are facing a new round of populist public reckoning.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 18 Dec. 2024
Patients frustrated with a flawed system The U.S. insurance industry is dominated by private-sector companies such as UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna, and operates as a largely for-profit enterprise — in contrast with most other wealthy countries.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024
Emails and text messages between Musk and OpenAI cofounders show that the billionaire himself proposed that OpenAI have a for-profit component back in 2017, with himself as CEO and majority stakeholder.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Anagilmara Vílchez, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Health insurance companies, insurance benefit managers, for-profit hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are facing a new round of populist public reckoning.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 18 Dec. 2024
Patients frustrated with a flawed system The U.S. insurance industry is dominated by private-sector companies such as UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna, and operates as a largely for-profit enterprise — in contrast with most other wealthy countries.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024
Emails and text messages between Musk and OpenAI cofounders show that the billionaire himself proposed that OpenAI have a for-profit component back in 2017, with himself as CEO and majority stakeholder.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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“For-profit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for-profit. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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