Definitions
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- adjective making the profit as great as possible
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Examples
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Prison governors warn that expanding the private sector's role in the custodial system will create a profit-maximising culture that favours incarceration and cutbacks to rehabilitation.
Private sector prisons are an eye-watering scandal, union tells justice ministry 2011
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The fact they did not has to do with the ownership structure of the co-operative model, which is spread among the customers rather than in the hands of profit-maximising private investors.
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Its ethical, fair treatment of its customers could power its growth beyond that of its profit-maximising competitors.
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The past three years have exposed as a fallacy the idea that the only way to run a company is as a profit-maximising, shareholder-driven plc.
Co-operatives offer template for David Cameron's big society 2010
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It was a reminder of the danger of leaving a key strategic asset in the hands of a profit-maximising capitalist sector lacking empathy for society's economic developmental challenges, SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande told journalists on Sunday.
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We need to tell profit-maximising institutions that they can't cut corners in risk-management functions.
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"Privatisation exposes our economy to the short-term profit-maximising vagaries of global markets," Nzimande said.
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The SACP believed that less emphasis should be placed on promoting a profit-maximising, labour-exploiting formal economy, and more emphasis on assisting households and communities to foster sustainable livelihoods, and "buttress themselves from the depredations of ... cruel market forces".
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"This inhuman and profit-maximising action by Standard Bank shows the poverty of Standard Bank policy on HIV/Aids and its disregard for providing adequate finance mechanisms for poor communities," the SACP said.
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Activities should be regulated, as far as possible, by nothing more intrusive than the invisible hand of profit-maximising competition.
Address at the VIIth International Ombudsman Institute Conference 2000
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