for profit

Example Sentences

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A private for-profit company, American Advanced Management, swooped to the rescue of Glenn Medical and a nearby hospital in Colusa County, buying them and keeping them open.

From Los Angeles Times

Atlanta officials think that with for-profit supermarket management they can avoid the failures of some other government grocery experiments.

From The Wall Street Journal

To the extent that anyone thought about it, our security strategy was something like this: For-profit firms will have powerful incentives to maintain our informational infrastructure because if they don’t, they’ll bear reputational damage that loses them users and advertisers, which—in turn—will cause their stock prices to tank.

From Slate

“There is a model mismatch between the way unions typically organize in for-profit settings, and how they can do it differently among nonprofits,” Ms. Smoucha said.

From New York Times

Mr. Lansing’s company, a private for-profit firm responsible for processing almost all online Republican political donations, charges 3.94 percent of almost every donation made online.

From New York Times