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non-profit-making

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adjective

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

    a non-profit-making organization

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2021

The Gotham awards are staged each year by the non-profit-making Independent Feature Project, which supports independent film-making.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2012

When Anderson bought TED in 2001 on behalf of his non-profit-making Sapling Foundation, it was more like an elite supper club for the masters of the universe.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2011

Publisher Laughlin now runs his mushrooming but so far non-profit-making firm from a bright, sparsely staffed office high above Manhattan's Greenwich Village.

From Time Magazine Archive

The association is now registered as a non-profit-making society under the law of 1867, with no share capital and no dividends.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark

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