Nonprofit means run for a cause rather than to make money. A nonprofit organisation, work for a nonprofit, the nonprofit sector.
It does not mean the organisation makes no surplus, only that nobody takes it out as profit, which is a distinction everybody misses. Britain says not-for-profit or charity for the same thing.
1adjectivenonprofitRun for a cause rather than to make money.
“She works for a nonprofit organization that brings clean water to villages.”
nonprofit is a quality.
Also accepted in games: non-profit
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Latin
prōfectus — advance, progress, growth, increase, profit
Old French
profit
Middle English
profit
English
profit
English, today
nonprofit
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From non- + profit. profit comes from Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). a doublet of profect.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA