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profit motive

noun

  1. the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.


profit motive

  1. The ability to earn profits as the reason for producers to make and sell goods .
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Notes

The profit motive is often called a great good or a great evil in society. On the one hand, it is said to represent selfishness; on the other, it is said to drive the free market system. ( See invisible hand .)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of profit motive1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

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Earth Liberation Front, an association of militant environmentalists, claimed responsibility for the attacks at the time, saying it had been intended to take the profit motive away from the companies responsible for pollution.

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And it enables us to not have it exclusively tied to the profit motive, which it currently is; if you don't qualify Medicaid or Medicare, it is exclusively tied to the profit motive.

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I think it is focusing on concrete issues like health care, like housing, like wages, but in doing so, making sure that the solutions are centered around the public good and not entirely informed by the profit motive.

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Now, Delgado is urging the Democratic Party to adopt a new vision for the future of New York and the United States, focusing on material concerns like economic security while criticizing his own party as prioritizing the demands of corporations — and the profit motive — at the expense of working people.

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The Christian nationalist movement is as organized around the profit motive as politics.

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