profit-making enterprise

collocation in English

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enterprise
noun
uk
/ˈen.tə.praɪz/us
/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition ofenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is already a commercial,profit-makingenterprise, and it therefore sits uneasily and unnaturally within the statutory framework.
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It was not done as aprofit-makingenterprise, but by banding together as a voluntary service.
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Any attempt to turn it into aprofit-makingenterpriseis, to say the least, unlikely to succeed.
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Such a development would be exceedingly unfortunate for privateprofit-makingenterprisein these areas.
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It was quite possible to contemplate, butprofit-makingenterprisewas the exception rather than the rule.
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I doubt very much indeed whether any rational or reasonable man compares a wholly educational establishment—a school—with a commercialprofit-makingenterprisein industry, trade or commerce.
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The private sector must have a conflict of interest about where it takes its patients from or what it does to maximise its profits, because it is aprofit-makingenterprise.
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Children's entertainment films are not aprofit-makingenterpriseand have to be underwritten in some way.
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Everyprofit-makingenterprisewill go almost automatically to the private sector, and the staff will be left with an under-funded service with increasing numbers of patients to deal with.
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It is obvious that this particular type of house is the very last that anyprofit-makingenterprisewith other people's money invested in it would care to undertake.
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In contrast, long term storage and storage from season to season is unlikely to be aprofit-makingenterprise, unless profits are taken which can be regarded as profiteering.
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The site earns revenue through advertising and merchandise and is a successfulprofit-makingenterprise.
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The press does not operate for any private orprofit-makingenterprise.
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Although at this stage the farm is not expected to be aprofit-makingenterprise, it obtains some income from the sale of moose milk and from visiting tourist groups.
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French motorways are profit-making enterprises and therefore they are wealth-creating.
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This means that some element of the official aid programme is to pay some of the costs of private profit-making enterprises in the developing world.
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In response to these accusations, juku teachers and administrators say that since their schools are profit-making enterprises, they have to guarantee results to succeed.
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One of the profit-making enterprises of the new press was the printing of thousands of indulgences for the church, documented from 145455.
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At that time prisons were profit-making enterprises.
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