for profit
Example Sentences
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It’s also getting support from Microsoft, which owns a 27% stake in its for-profit division valued at $135 billion, Advanced Micro Devices, which cut a chips-for-equity deal last autumn, and a letter of intent that could see Nvidia investing as much as $100 billion.
From Barron's
At the same time, Edison and the state’s two other big for-profit electric companies are lobbying state officials for even more protection from the cost of future fires to reassure their investors.
From Los Angeles Times
Maybe replacing for-profit enterprises with nonprofits won’t fix the income disparities he complains about.
It’s a for-profit approach to a massive nonprofit problem.
Ironically, the lucrative arrival of LIV prompted a huge increase in prize money among the old order as well as $1.5bn investment from the Strategic Sports Group and the formation of the for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises.
From BBC
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