non-profit-making

British

adjective

not yielding a profit, esp because organized or established for some other reason

a non-profit-making organization

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It is backed by a coalition of labour groups, trade unions, grassroots campaigns and non-profit-making organisations in individual countries.

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Beverley Folk Festival, a non-profit-making organisation run by volunteers, said it had lost its "primary source of funding".

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Street UK is non-profit-making and claims to be the cheapest such provider of short-term loans in the UK.

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She is also the founder of the non-profit-making organisation Lumos, which works to reconnect children who have been in institutional care with life within a family.

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David Nash, from the Vesta Tilley Society, a non-profit-making group dedicated to furthering her memory, said she had "the X factor" and recruited potentially 300 people in one day, it was claimed.

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