How to Use profit center in a Sentence

profit center

noun
  • These fees turned out to be a major profit center for banks.
    Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The for-profit center was acquired by Steward Health in 2017.
    Leto Sapunar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The program is a major revenue source and profit center for ABC News.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • That work right now is a big profit center for dealerships.
    Nora Naughton, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Merchandise can be a major profit center, but even sales aren’t exempt from the effects of the heat.
    Adam Met, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Airlines stick close to their profit centers, just like a pit boss watching the blackjack tables.
    Time, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Electric cars don’t need as many trips to the garage for repairs and maintenance, which is a profit center for most dealers.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The event - open to serious and casual athletes – is a fundraiser for the non-profit center.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The region is a major profit center for HSBC, and also home to a large proportion of the bank’s total staff.
    Elaine Yu, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • Trading a job heading a big profit center for his old role of running a big bank’s back office seems like a downshift.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 May 2020
  • And then once there was a profit center involved and there was a way ... a lot of incentives to write really good malware.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2021
  • North America is the profit center for the 117-year-old automaker based in Dearborn.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Security, at its core, is seen as a cost center, rather than a profit center.
    Héctor Guillermo Martínez, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Most of those efforts had to be done over time as funds were raised, borrowed and as the founding artists dug deep into their own pockets more than once to keep the not-for-profit center open.
    cleveland, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Any small business can create a gift certificate or gift card profit center, and should.
    Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • In reality, the show itself was by far Mr. Trump’s chief profit center.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
  • This is an attempt to turn fraud prevention into a profit center.
    Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • John Marsh, the non-profit center's chairman and father of Eric Marsh, said the tribute center attracts visitors from all over the world.
    Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
  • But whatever strides the sector might be making are overshadowed by the focus on its profit center: oil and gas.
    Taylor Telford, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Bonello and Scott Buchanan, the non-profit center’s legal director, stressed that Saari’s plight is not that uncommon.
    Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 27 July 2019
  • And while many fast food chains see their value menus as more of a traffic driver than a profit center for the businesses, Hackbardt says Del Taco sees profits in its $2 menu.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The preserve initially served as the backdrop for their film, and now is a non-profit center for care and research on big cats, according to Shambala's website.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In Dallas, like most places, our public life plays out in three main spheres: sports, commerce and the arts (and increasingly, parks and public spaces that aren’t profit centers — though that’s still a work in progress here).
    Dan Singer, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The chip unit, now controlled by Bain Capital, was Toshiba’s biggest profit center.
    Kosaku Narioka, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • People managing a profit center must make tradeoffs between sales growth and the cost of achieving that growth in order to drive higher profits.
    Gregory Milano, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • What if machines could be your profit center and economic driver?
    Art Malkov, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Google’s search engine has long been its profit center, but its ad tech division has helped cement its place as a one-stop shop for advertisers.
    David McCabe and Nico Grant, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The situation has the potential to affect a key profit center for Facebook.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The cloud-service operation is a huge profit center for Amazon.
    Frank Bajak and Barbara Ortutay, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2021
  • North Korea’s arsenal has long been one of the isolated country’s few profit centers.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 4 June 2018

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