for-profit

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Editorial note

Mozilla is earning money from partnerships, but the company goals are driven by the not-for-profit mission statement.

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Quick take

An organization whose goal is to make a profit.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

An organization whose goal is to make a profit.

adjective

(business, of an organization) For the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for for-profit.

noun

An organization whose goal is to make a profit.

adjective

(business, of an organization) For the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.

Example sentences

Mozilla is earning money from partnerships, but the company goals are driven by the not-for-profit mission statement.

Something like Gmail, Gravatar, or the like that are services you can pay for, but they're not run for-profit.

He's an entrepreneur, owns a for-profit business and is choosing to compensate how he wants to.

That would be a bizarre decision for a for-profit company to make.

They are a for-profit company that does what's best for Github.

I don't know anything more than what you provided in this post, but it sounds like you're talking about for-profit education centers.

Used to be that mozilla.com was the homepage for the for-profit wing, but I see now that it just redirects to mozilla.org.

I don't remember what all of them are but I read an article a while back talking about a number of for-profit schools.

I wouldn't say I want it back to the old web completely - there are lot of for-profit things that I use daily.

I just wish it didn't come with the strangely uncomfortable, sell-your-soul type of vibe that a project funded by publicly owned, for-profit venture usually generates.

You can file as a not-for-profit social purposes organization (to incorporate at the state level) without electing to take on IRS non-profit status -- you just need to pay taxes still.

> I have a degree but it's from a for-profit trade art school Tbh, my first jobs were in places that was almost entirely made up of people from those sorts of places and paid below market.