nonprofit

• non-profit

non- +‎ profit.

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nonprofit (not comparable)

1. Not seeking to produce a profit (a financial gain).
   • 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 47:

     The site's infrastructure (but not its content) is now run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), which will be described in depth in Chapter 17.

• not-for-profit
• non-profit-making

• for-profit

nonprofit (plural nonprofits)

1. Ellipsis of nonprofit organization: an organization that exists for reasons other than to make a profit, such as a charitable, educational or service organization.
   • 2014 February 27, Adeeb Mahmud, “Beyond charity: three innovative types of business partnerships for nonprofits”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Historically, companies have viewed nonprofits primarily as recipients of their philanthropy – usually in the form of cash and product donations, as well as employee volunteers, in exchange for a boost to their reputations or stronger relationships with local stakeholders.

   • 2018 July 25, Alana Semuels, “How Silicon Valley Has Disrupted Philanthropy”, in The Atlantic‎:

     The people who made millions or billions from these companies are now changing yet another sector of the American economy: philanthropy. They’re forcing nonprofits to become incubators and disruptors, rather than just service providers, and to think about how they sell themselves, how they measure what they do, and what programs will attract money.

   • 2023 February 22, Jeneen Interlandi, Donavon Smallwood, “One Year Inside a Radical New Approach to America’s Overdose Crisis”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     They make up one of three community outreach teams employed by OnPoint, a New York City nonprofit that provides services for people who use drugs.

   • 2023 March 18, Jane Margolies, “How the Head of a Shelter for Young L.G.B.T.Q. Adults Spends Sundays”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The shelter, an independent nonprofit, was originally a pilot project of Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan, and still occupies its basement on the Upper West Side.

• not-for-profit
• NPO

• nonprofit, non-profit at Google Ngram Viewer

Borrowed from English nonprofit.

nonprofit (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in compounds, otherwise uncommon) nonprofit

   Nonprofitunternehmen ― nonprofit enterprise

   • 2013 August 29, Gabriele Goettle, “Gesundheit neu gedacht: Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN:

     In den USA hat sich beim Preisvergleich im Medicare-System gezeigt, am preiswertesten arbeiten Kaiser Permanente und die Mayo-Clinic, die sind nonprofit, und es gibt keine kleinlichen materiellen Vorgaben für die Behandlung der Kranken wie bei uns.

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   • 2018 March 15, Julian Weber, “Kepler 452b-Rave”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN, page 26:

     Es wird geravt im Funkhaus Nalepastraße. „Kepler 452b“ klingt danach, Lichtjahre von der Realität entfernt zu sein. Motto des Techno-Performance-Festivals: „nonprofit und nomadisch“, Levitation pur.

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Borrowed from English nonprofit.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈnomprofit]
• Hyphenation: non‧pro‧fit
• Rhymes: -it

nonprofit (not comparable)

1. nonprofit

From non- +‎ profit.

nonprofit m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. non-profit