profit seeking
Pursuing financial returns
Profit seeking is the pursuit of financial gain, especially as a primary motive for business activity.
The term often carries critical undertones, suggesting that making money has displaced other values: Critics accused the company of profit seeking at the expense of patient safety.
Profit-seeking (hyphenated) works as an adjective: profit-seeking behavior, profit-seeking enterprises.
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- corporate greedExcessive pursuit of profit
- lucrativeYielding substantial profit
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- hustleEnergetic, aggressive action
revenue · bottom line · shareholder value · entrepreneurial · mercenary · opportunistic · commercial · gain · wealth · money-hungry · cash grab · margins · exploitation · ambitious · cutthroat · dog eat dog · dividends · corporate
profit seekingaltruistic
Concerned for others' welfare
philanthropic · charitable · humanitarian · public-spirited · benevolent
profit seekinganticapitalist
Opposing private ownership systems
communism · socialism · collectivism · gift economy · subsistence
profit seekingnonprofit
Organization serving public good
not-for-profit · charitable organization · NGO · social enterprise · public sector
profit, seeking, profits, profited, profiting, profitable, profitability, profitably, unprofitable