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non-profit-making

non-profit-making

3.5
A group that does not try to make money and helps people or a cause
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈprɒfɪtˌmeɪkɪŋ/
  • UK
translation icon : sin ánimo de lucro
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Examples

  • The European Parliament has called for private arrangements to be replaced by a compulsory system undertaken by "duly accredited non-profit making organizations under public control."

    Academic text (2001)

  • The clerk was decently paid by the decent standards of a foundation that was non-profit-making not only in the monetary sense but also in the human one, providing the same benefits of medical care and pension fund for all who worked there, from the director to the cleaner.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • This non-profit-making organization focuses on providing education for underprivileged children.

  • Many volunteers choose to dedicate their time to non-profit-making charities rather than for-profit companies.

  • Her latest project aims to support non-profit-making groups that tackle environmental issues.

Synonyms

nonprofit
vsnon-profit-making
  • US
92 3.3

About organizations that do not try to make money

is broader, applying to any operation not meant to make profit
not-for-profit
vsnon-profit-making
16 3.4

An organization that does not aim to make money and helps the community

refers more generally to operations not aimed at making money
noncommercial
vsnon-profit-making
3 4.4

Not intended to make money

focuses on lack of profit motive rather than absence of business connection

Antonyms

moneymaking
3.6

Likely to earn money

How Commercial

profitable
191 3.8
commercial
601 3.7
charitable
150 3.4
non-profit-making
  • UK
3.5

Surface Forms

non-profit-making positive
nonprofit-making positive
non-profit positive

Morphology

non-profit-making = profit-making (transparent) = non + profit + make + ing

The compound 'profit-making' clearly denotes 'making profit', and the productive negating prefix 'non-' yields an easily derivable negative meaning.

Etymology

The word non-profit-making is made from non- meaning 'not', profit meaning 'money gained', and making meaning 'producing', so it literally says 'not producing money as its goal' and is used for organisations that do work without aiming to earn profit.