for profit

Example Sentences

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Those that are for-profit are struggling to turn one, given their large sunken costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The Adelanto facility, like the Louisiana lockup where Cabrera Clemente was held, is run by a private, for-profit prison company.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

This isn’t unheard of: Some universities already have taxable, for-profit arms, whether it’s in real estate development, hospitality or startup incubators.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Oregon’s Jeff Merkley is probing Partners Group and American Securities for financial records of for-profit child-care companies they control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Technical academies are well represented, most of them from the for-profit sector that has been under scrutiny in recent years because students too often emerge with tens of thousands of dollars of debt—but not jobs.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove