profit center

noun

: a part of a corporation or its product line that is an important source of profits

Examples of profit center in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When content goes from profit center to cost center, most media companies will struggle to adjust. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026

And that is where the rubber meets the road as inference becomes a profit center for clouds and enterprises. — Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

Running in-house management at this scale is not, by itself, a profit center. — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 25 June 2026

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

Word History

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for profit center

• epicenter
• multicenter
• centre
• enter
• renter
• stentor
• dissenter
• frequenter
• indenter
• inventor
• precentor
• preventer