for-profit
[fer-prof-it]
- (of a business or institution) initiated or operated for the purpose of making a profit: for-profit hospitals.
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Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
(2) If a creative professional wants to volunteer to help a for-profit business, that is permissible.
Mitchell himself has taken a hard line against disclosures of financial information concerning his for-profit companies.
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October 15, 2014
He calls Kline the champion of for-profit colleges, which have a dropout rate “worse than celebrity rehab.”
Those numbers are typical of the for-profit education industry.