Example sentences for: for-profit

How can you use “for-profit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Chatterbox already knew Fannie Mae was one of the last great Washington rackets--a place where ordinary, competent, well-connected politicos and lawyers get to earn astronomical, Gordon Gekko-like sums (Johnson made an estimated $7.2 million in 1996) while working to preserve the government favors that help this ostensibly private, for-profit enterprise earn $3 billion or so a year.

  • HMOs are still an experiment: Americans have not yet decided if we like having for-profit corporations controlling our medical care.

  • As a result, the positive association between competition and clinical resource use among non-profit hospitals diminished and the negative association among the for-profit hospitals increased.

  • Dr. Bernard Salick's chain of 24 for-profit cancer clinics has done well in California, making flexible schedules a part of its patient-friendly approach, but Dr. Warren Enker, associate director of New York's Beth Israel Hospital, remains skeptical.

  • For-profit stock exchanges have grown in number since 1993 in Europe and the Far East but none exist in the U.S. yet.


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