profitmaking

Example Sentences

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Problematically, the plan could only fund profitmaking infrastructure projects, like toll bridges.

From Economist • Nov. 24, 2016

That massive gap was an incredible profitmaking opportunity for someone, most likely a major player with the fastest computers and best algorithms.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2015

Companies seemed to concede that profitmaking was a bad thing.

From Economist • May 17, 2012

Oddly in such a capitalist nirvana, the government owns scores of firms, from the telephone, electricity and airline companies to banks, supermarkets and taxis, but they all run on a competitive, profitmaking basis.

From Time Magazine Archive

As an agent, he was an expert at "packaging"�bringing directors, actors, writers and producers together into deals that would produce profitmaking blockbuster films.

From Time Magazine Archive