adj.
Established or operated with the intention of making a profit: a for-profit organization.
for-profit
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Finance: positive difference that results from selling products and services for more than the cost of producing these goods. See also Net Income.
Investment: difference between selling price and purchase price of commodities or securities when the selling price is higher.
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- Profit Maximization (in accounting)
- Book Profit (business term)
- profitability
- Loss (finance term)
- target-profit pricing (in marketing)
- P&l
- bring in
- dividend
- pay
- take
- P and L (abbreviation)
- Macherbal (Quotes By)
- commercial
- moneymaking
