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profit-maximizing

profit-maximizing

1 6.1
Trying to make as much money as possible
  • adjective
  • /ˈprɒfɪt ˈmæksɪmaɪzɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : maximizador de beneficios
  • The company implemented several profit-maximizing strategies to increase its earnings this quarter.
  • profit-maximizing strategy
  • profit-maximizing model
  • profit-maximizing behavior

But what they find is that Ziprecruiter was not short run profit maximizing to these consumers.

Examples

  • Economic theory suggests that firms should not undertake a name change unless firm management believes that it is a profit-maximizing activity.

    Academic text (2016)

  • If profit were higher, then the earlier solution would not be the profit maximizing one.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The firm is a profit-maximizing business producing for a competitive market, and nature is the source of market luck.

    Academic text (1997)

  • There are four strictly profit-maximizing models.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Say what you want about bank executives, but they are, by definition, profit-maximizing agents.

    Blog text (13)

  • In other words, there is no contradiction between profit maximizing and the welfare of people.

  • Opposing government policy during the Gulf War would have been very risky from a profit-maximizing perspective.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Fiscal consolidation should come only once the private sector has returned to profit-maximizing mode.

    Blog text (19)

  • I imagine an economy consisting of many identical households, many identical profit-maximizing firms, and a government sector.

    Academic text (2018)

  • In particular, they compute profit-maximizing price strategies using a dynamic representation of the world oil market.

    Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

moneymaking
vsprofit-maximizing
3.6

Likely to earn money

aims to increase profits to the highest possible level

How Profit-Focused

money-grubbing
  • Offensive
3 6.5
profit-maximizing
  • Specialized
1 6.1

Surface Forms

profit-maximizing positive

Morphology

profit-maximizing = profit + maximize (transparent) = profit + maximize + ing

The phrase literally means 'seeking to make profit as large as possible'—a direct composition of 'profit' + 'maximize' with the participial '-ing'.

Etymology

Profit-maximizing breaks into profit ('gain' or money you make) and maximize ('make as large as possible', like the familiar word maximum), so it describes a person, price, or strategy that tries to get the most profit possible.