for-profit business

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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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Still, whatever the mission, a goal of anyfor-profitbusinessfirm is the economic flourishing of its shareholders, or of its primary stakeholders.
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The underlying dynamic, of course, is that so much of the healthcare industry is some variation of afor-profitbusiness.
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Technology is pushed into the learning environment as a tool for assessment but it is an initiative forfor-profitbusiness.
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In mid-2010, however, it announced plans to become afor-profitbusinessowned by three media companies once certain conditions are met.
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Two years later, the methodology was spun off into an independentfor-profitbusinessnow part of.
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Some pageants are afor-profitbusinessventure while others are run as non-profit organizations.
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Operating independently from any government, it is not a conventionalfor-profitbusinessand has no political goals.
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Additionally, schools are increasingly using price discrimination as a strategy across different programs to increase revenue (i.e. employing strategies like afor-profitbusiness).
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Yet the school is still fundamentally different from afor-profitbusinessentity in that it is restricted by its school mission.
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She said they wanted to show that you can make afor-profitbusinesswhere everybody in the chain is treated well.
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Beyond the corporate model, otherfor-profitbusinessentities make an amendment of the company by-laws or governing documents.
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Causes is afor-profitbusiness.
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The paper today is afor-profitbusinessowned by the nonprofit community foundation and continues to emphasize education and economic development in its news coverage and editorials.
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It is a privately owned,for-profitbusiness.
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Ron was the first person from afor-profitbusinessto win this award.
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Many of these were newly established for-profit businesses.
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Hewson said they wanted to show that you can make afor-profitbusinesswhere everybody in the chain is treated well.
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