profit-making business

collocation in English

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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This collectivity may be a social club, a voluntary association, a religious group, a government agency, or aprofit-makingbusinessenterprise.
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At present, film-making is not aprofit-makingbusiness.
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Do not try to turn aprofit-makingbusinessinto a social service.
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Employees in the public sector are not in theprofit-makingbusiness.
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It is aprofit-makingbusiness, which now has assets in excess of £1 billion.
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People organising a social club or allotment are not in theprofit-makingbusiness.
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It is an extraordinary situation that we should now be subsidising, out of public funds, the setting up of a privateprofit-makingbusinessorganisation—because that is what will happen.
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They have to build their roads, their railways, their schools; they have to build everything which is taken for granted by theprofit-makingbusinessman in this country.
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But the increased production could not be turned into aprofit-makingbusinessand except for the years 1928 and 1929, the company encountered losses during this period.
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Most funding for cancer research comes from taxpayers and charities, rather than from profit-making businesses.
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Private profit-making businesses are different from government-owned bodies.
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