The phrase 'become profit' is not correct English; it does not have a clear and precise meaning.
In written English, you could use the phrase 'turn a profit', which means to make money or to make more money than expenses. For example: After spending months to set up the business, the owners were finally able to turn a profit.
I wonder if Anne can prevent herself from going on and becoming part of how these tragic events become profit centers for media.
Urologists have spent millions of dollars buying I.M.R.T. machines, which then become profit centers for their practices, as Stephanie Saul of The New York Times reported.
At many companies, tax departments have effectively become profit centers, where armies of accountants and tax attorneys devise ways to legally shortchange Uncle Sam.
"At the current time, we don't have enough good incubator space for new and emerging companies who are taking their first step out of the research institution and attempting to become profit making," Mr. Gilpatric explained.
For all the talk of public-spiritedness, the agencies that pocket the fines have become profit centres: Rhode Island's bureaucrats have been on a spending spree courtesy of a $500m payout by Google, while New York's governor and attorney-general have squabbled over a $613m settlement from JPMorgan.
"The issue is that with the consolidation of these assets that has occurred through bank mergers, bank trusteeships — which were largely a community role for the bank — have become profit centers and a way to enhance a bank's philanthropic image," said Rick Cohen, the former executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a watchdog organization.
One study found that patients' mortality rates spiked when nonprofit hospitals switched to become profit-making, and their staff levels declined.
"Although progress was made, the improvements achieved were insufficient to ensure that the business could become profit-making," the group said.
All academies and free schools in England, which are the Education Secretary's personal obsession, would be free to become profit-making for the first time, and be entirely decoupled from Whitehall control.
Academies and free schools should become profit-making businesses using hedge funds and venture capitalists to raise money, according to private plans being drawn up by the Education Secretary, Michael Gove.
Horizon in New Jersey, with 2.6 million members, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, with 2.2 million, are planning to become profit-making companies, usually a step toward selling stock to investors and, often, a merger.
