Non-profit organizations are entities that operate for a particular social, cultural or educational objective, rather than for any financial gain. Opposed to non-profit is the term profit, which denotes the financial gain obtained through commercial activities. For-profit, therefore, would be the antonym for non-profit. Additionally, other antonyms for non-profit could be commercial, for-profit, profitable, or lucrative, indicating activities or ventures that seek revenue generation as their main source of motivation. Organizations or activities that operate with the goal of accumulating wealth are therefore fund-raising, profit-making, or commercial activities that seek to gain monetary rewards as the primary objective.

What are the antonyms for Non-profit?

• adj.

  • not for profit
  • profitmaking
  .
  • unprofitable
  • Gainful
  ,
  • beneficial
  ,
  • fruitful
  ,
  • helpful
  ,
  • productive
  ,
  • profitable
  ,
  • successful
  ,
  • useful
  ,
  • valuable
  .

Famous quotes with Non-profit

• In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

  Virgil Goode
• And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

  John Hickenlooper
• No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

  Matthew Lesko
• While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

  Michel Chossudovsky
• Doc says the Company set-up is just one big happy family, and the idea that it is a non-profit corporation is the biggest joke since women were invented.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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