| 单词 | profit-seeking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprofit-seeking profit-seeking adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > profit-seeking profit-seeking1599 profit-maximizing1930 1599 S. Daniel Musophilus in Poet. Ess. sig. A Other delights then these, other desires This wiser profit-seeking age requires. ?c1650 tr. ‘Tobias’ Mirabilia Opera Dei xxxi. 113 The self Seekers, with their profit-seeking and greediness. 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iv. 42 Profit-seeking Prophets and Pastors, that for pay have made a prey of his people. 1863 Metrop. Record 6 June in Washington Despotism Dissected 106 As for the north, its commercial and profit-seeking people will be among the first in the effort to obliterate the past. 1898 H. D. Lloyd Wealth against Commonw. xxxiv. 504 Limited now by the intervention of the selfishness of profit-seeking, it needs only to be freed from this. 1949 I. Deutscher Stalin ii. 27 The evils of modern profit-seeking industrialism. 1998 K. Otsuka et al. Industrial Reform China i. i. 5 In order to make profit-seeking a useful principle to guide enterprise behaviour, market prices must be determined in accordance with supply and demand forces. < as lemmas |
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