at a profit

However, messages seen by BBC News also suggest scalpers may be buying hundreds of genuine products at a time to resell them at a profit, with authorities reporting a "flood" of counterfeits entering the market.

Sales of office buildings have slowed, in part because large institutional investors are skeptical that property values will appreciate enough to resell them at a profit after five years, as is common practice.

James Goldsmith was a businessman who had made a fortune by buying struggling companies cheaply, reshaping them to maximise efficiency and then selling them at a profit.

The county could potentially consolidate some of its many offices there and then sell it later at a profit when the office real estate market recovered.

Of course it’s not a business, but a public service aiming to tie the entire nation together; no one should expect the Postal Service to fulfill its responsibilities at a profit any more than we expect the national highway system or K-12 schools to do so.