How to Use profit center in a Sentence

profit center

noun
  • Security, at its core, is seen as a cost center, rather than a profit center.
    — Héctor Guillermo Martínez, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • It is rarely seen as a driver of business performance, let alone a profit center.
    — Sentry Insurance, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Any small business can create a gift certificate or gift card profit center, and should.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • Airlines stick close to their profit centers, just like a pit boss watching the blackjack tables.
    — Time, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Running in-house management at this scale is not, by itself, a profit center.
    — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • This is an attempt to turn fraud prevention into a profit center.
    — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • What if machines could be your profit center and economic driver?
    — Art Malkov, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Merchandise can be a major profit center, but even sales aren’t exempt from the effects of the heat.
    — Adam Met, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Trading a job heading a big profit center for his old role of running a big bank’s back office seems like a downshift.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 May 2020
  • Electric cars don’t need as many trips to the garage for repairs and maintenance, which is a profit center for most dealers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Amazon’s online ad business, one of its biggest profit centers, was downsized as well.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The event - open to serious and casual athletes – is a fundraiser for the non-profit center.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Whether alcohol service is a passenger amenity or a profit center is less clear.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Economic booms drive huge demand for banks' core profit centers — business loans, credit cards debt and mortgages.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 June 2019
  • But times have changed, and many have become giant profit centers and some of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the state.
    — Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Google’s search engine has long been its profit center, but its ad tech division has helped cement its place as a one-stop shop for advertisers.
    — David McCabe and Nico Grant, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The cloud-service operation is a huge profit center for Amazon.
    — Frank Bajak and Barbara Ortutay, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The program is a major revenue source and profit center for ABC News.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The for-profit center was acquired by Steward Health in 2017.
    — Leto Sapunar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • North Korea’s arsenal has long been one of the isolated country’s few profit centers.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 4 June 2018
  • People managing a profit center must make tradeoffs between sales growth and the cost of achieving that growth in order to drive higher profits.
    — Gregory Milano, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Convert arb, Griffin’s dorm-room strategy, remained Citadel’s profit center for most of its first decade.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Most of those efforts had to be done over time as funds were raised, borrowed and as the founding artists dug deep into their own pockets more than once to keep the not-for-profit center open.
    — cleveland, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Remember, cleaning fees can be a profit center for car rental companies, and they are often unfairly applied.
    — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The situation has the potential to affect a key profit center for Facebook.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Oct. 2017
  • But the real profit center created by slow payments is the myriad fees and costly loans charged to those who can’t afford to wait several days for their checks to clear.
    — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Now, Iger sees the studio unit and the parks and experiences division as both vying to lead Disney as far as a profit center.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The chip unit, now controlled by Bain Capital, was Toshiba’s biggest profit center.
    — Kosaku Narioka, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • Bally’s and the city are banking on the permanent casino to significantly boost its standing as a tourist magnet and profit center.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Since the one-time profit center known as the home video market collapsed, it’s been harder for studios to justify taking bets in that budget category.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024

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