nonprofit
adjective
not established for the purpose of making a profit; not entered into for money.
nonprofits
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pluralof nonprofit.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Recent wins by nonprofits against the administration include an appeals court ruling in June that the Environmental Protection Agency must uphold strengthened air pollution standards for fine particular matter or soot.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The FinEd50 coalition, a movement backed by both nonprofits and corporations, is working to expand and improve financial education.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
He now runs Grantlytics, a company he founded that uses AI to help nonprofits find funders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
There is a good reason to require such disclosures: the “alter ego” phenomenon of illegal nonprofits rebranding and restarting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Here were women, all of them under thirty and some as young as sixteen, who were building nonprofits, training other women to be entrepreneurs, and risking imprisonment to report on government corruption.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
