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for-profit

American  
[fer-prof-it] / fərˈprɒf ɪt /

adjective

  1. (of a business or institution) initiated or operated for the purpose of making a profit.

    for-profit hospitals.

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Oregon’s Jeff Merkley is probing Partners Group and American Securities for financial records of for-profit child-care companies they control.

From The Wall Street Journal

For-profit hospice providers represent more than 70% of the industry, with many companies owned by private-equity firms, according to a 2022 report by ProPublica.

From MarketWatch

Such hospice providers are not owned by private-equity firms or for-profit entities.

From MarketWatch

You went from for-profit into a nonprofit.

From Slate

The next year, Chisholm got pregnant and started a certified medical assistant program at the for-profit Brightwood Career Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal

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