for-profit

Definitions

Examples

• Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

• Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.

• There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.

• She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit.

• Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

• Nearly all our great intervales might be irrigated immensely to the profit of their cultivators.

• There was a great comparing of papers, and turning over of leaves, by Fogg and Perker, after this statement of profit and loss.

• My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?

• It means enough not to satisfy them, and to leave the selling price of the things made at the point of profit.

• Only I fear they will not profit us much; for if my eyes deceive me not, both are already captured.