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When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.
Louis Bacon

Meaning of "profit-seeking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROFIT-SEEKING

profit-seeking  [ˈprɒfɪtˌsiːkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROFIT-SEEKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Profit-Seeking is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROFIT-SEEKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of profit-seeking in the English dictionary

The definition of profit-seeking in the dictionary is attempting to make a profit or financial gains.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROFIT-SEEKING


attention-seeking
əˈtenʃənˌsiːkɪŋ
English-speaking
ˈɪŋɡlɪʃˌspiːkɪŋ
freaking
ˈfriːkɪŋ
French-speaking
ˈfrɛntʃˌspiːkɪŋ
German-speaking
ˈdʒɜːmənˌspiːkɪŋ
networking
ˈnɛtˌwɜːkɪŋ
nonspeaking
nɒnˈspiːkɪŋ
parking
ˈpɑːkɪŋ
phreaking
ˈfriːkɪŋ
piquing
ˈpiːkɪŋ
pleasure-seeking
ˈpleʒəˌsiːkɪŋ
publicity-seeking
pʌˈblɪsɪtɪ ˈsiːkɪŋ
reeking
ˈriːkɪŋ
screaking
ˈskriːkɪŋ
slow-speaking
ˌsləʊˈspiːkɪŋ
sneaking
ˈsniːkɪŋ
speaking
ˈspiːkɪŋ
streaking
ˈstriːkɪŋ
talking
ˈtɔːkɪŋ
walking
ˈwɔːkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROFIT-SEEKING

profit
profit and loss
profit and loss account
profit centre
profit margin
profit motive
profit squeeze
profit taking
profit warning
profit-making
profit-sharing
profit-sharing scheme
profitability
profitability study
profitable
profitableness
profitably
profiteer
profiteering
profiter

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROFIT-SEEKING

banking
booking
breaking
clicking
cooking
drinking
foreking
fucking
heat-seeking
in the making
king
Mafeking
making
on-street parking
Peking
ranking
self-seeking
smoking
sucking
taking

Synonyms and antonyms of profit-seeking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «profit-seeking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROFIT-SEEKING

Find out the translation of profit-seeking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of profit-seeking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «profit-seeking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

营利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

con fines de lucro
570 millions of speakers

English

profit-seeking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लाभ की मांग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ربحية تسعى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наживы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fins lucrativos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মুনাফাকারী চাইছেন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la recherche du profit
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mencari keuntungan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gewinnsucht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

営利
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이익 추구
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

MediaWiki
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tìm kiếm lợi nhuận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இலாப காண்பது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नफा मिळवणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kar arayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ricerca del profitto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na zysk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наживи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

realizarea de profit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιδίωξης του κέρδους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

winsbejag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vinstsyfte
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

profit- seeking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of profit-seeking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROFIT-SEEKING»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about profit-seeking

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QUOTES WITH «PROFIT-SEEKING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word profit-seeking.
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Louis Bacon
When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROFIT-SEEKING»

Discover the use of profit-seeking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to profit-seeking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1: Theory of Rent Seeking
So long as owners of resources prefer more to less, they are likely to be engaged in rent seeking, which is simply another word for profit seeking. Traditional economic models of social interaction are based on the presumption that persons  ...
Roger D. Congleton, Arye L. Hillman, Kai A. Konrad, 2008
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Marketing Management
Maximising profitability is the primary objective of a profit-seeking enterprise and can be achieved only with due consideration of consumer needs. The American Marketing Association describes an objective as "the desired or needed result to  ...
M. C. Cant, J. W. Strydom, C. J. Jooste, 2009
3
Rent-Seeking, Institutions and Reforms in Africa: Theory and ...
Interesting insights into rent-seeking behaviour can be gained by looking at the individual decision-making situation of choosing between profit-seeking and rent- seeking, including the widely discussed limitations of neo-classical economics ...
Pius Fischer, 2007
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The Economics of Corporate Governance and Mergers
Manfred Neumann, Richard Reichel and Jürgen Weigand 1 INTRODUCTION In most industrialized countries non-profit firms (NPs) account for a substantial share of economic activity. In many cases they are competing with profit-seeking firms ...
K. Gugler, Klaus Gugler, B. Burcin Yurtoglu, 2008
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Financial Accounting
Objective and Necessity of Maintaining Accounts The main object of non-profit seeking entities is to provide valuable services to its members and to the society. People join such concerns for mutual entertainment or for protection or for the ...
6
South-Western Federal Taxation 2014: Individual Income Taxes
Certain activities may have either profit-seeking or personal attributes, depending upon individual circumstances. Examples include raising horses and operating a farm used as a weekend residence. While personal losses are not deductible, ...
William Hoffman, James Smith, 2013
7
The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking
Charles K. Rowley Introduction The rent-seeking literature and the literature on directly unproductive profit-seeking (DUP) activities both focus attention upon individual or group economic behavior of a rational, solipsist nature which ...
Charles K. Rowley, Robert D. Tollison, Gordon Tullock, 1988
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Bureaucracy and Representative Government
Some more familiar functions derived from the above include the following : The marginal valuation or demand function faced by a profit-seeking monopoly or competitive industry is V = 200-1.00Q,0<200. (7.4) The total revenue function of the ...
William A. Niskanen, 1974
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Political Economy and International Economics
Directly unproductive profit-seeking (DUP) activities are defined (Bhag- wati, 1982) as ways of making a profit (i.e., income) by undertaking activities that are directly (i.e., immediately, in their primary impact) unproductive, in the sense that they ...
Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Douglas A. Irwin, 1996
10
Economics: A New Introduction
But some private profit- seeking health centres which offer a wide range of services want their doctors to order as many profitable tests and procedures as possible, and have them all done by branches of the firm. Some have been known to ...
Hugh Stretton, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROFIT-SEEKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term profit-seeking is used in the context of the following news items.
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Uber strikes NYC deal: No cap on drivers for now
... opposite sides, Uber also has critics who say its treatment of its contract drivers and general profit-seeking make it an anti-progressive force, ... «TV Newsroom, Jul 15»
2
City of Oakland Declares Humanist Hall a Neighborhood Nuisance …
The Humanist church is not a profit-seeking entity but is dedicated to offering its space to support the political, spiritual, cultural and ethnic ... «Bay Area Indymedia, Jul 15»
3
State of our nation in 2015
... deteriorating infrastructure in the hands of private profit-seeking companies that care little for the people's welfare. If the administration cannot ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
4
China's crackdown on lawyers sparks debate on Communist Party's …
State propaganda has kicked into high gear to denounce them as rabble-rousers, criminal gangs, and profit-seeking opportunists. «OCRegister, Jul 15»
5
More than 70 Liverpool NHS staff face redundancy after privatisation …
“Now we learn that profit-seeking private firm Capita plans to slash jobs in Liverpool and across England.” He added: “The administration of ... «Liverpool Echo, Jul 15»
6
County's consideration of change in airport management deserves …
Most notably, profit-seeking airlines no longer pursue airports. The county board in the recent past began appointing business and regional ... «Grand Rapids Business Journal, Jul 15»
7
The purpose of The Scott Trust
... party affiliation; remaining faithful to its liberal tradition; as a profit-seeking enterprise managed in an efficient and cost-effective manner. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
8
Writers and publishers are all at sea under Brandis and the NPEA
Literature is a mix of writers working as freelancers, profit-seeking publishers, bookshops, government-funded libraries and these small but ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
9
Overdosing on Antibiotics
... by both the general public's misconception about the effectiveness of antibiotics and doctors' misdiagnosis or even profit-seeking behaviors. «Beijing Review, Jul 15»
10
China rounds up rights lawyers in latest crackdown
State propaganda has kicked into high gear to denounce them as rabble-rousers, criminal gangs, and profit-seeking opportunists. «Salon, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Profit-Seeking [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/profit-seeking>. Apr 2024 ».
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