Meaning & use
nonprofit
An organization not established or run to make a financial profit.
See it in a sentence
The nonprofit provides free tutoring to children in low-income neighborhoods.
She left her corporate job to work for a nonprofit focused on clean water.
A note on using this word
Functions as both a noun for the organization itself and an adjective, as in "nonprofit organization."
Words with a similar meaning
not-for-profit
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Words with an opposite meaning
for-profitcorporation
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