Definition of "profit-maximizing" []

• Making the profit as great as possible (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Indeed, it is more patriotic to consume a steroid-pumped, undernourished, traumatized turkey hurled onto a mechanical conveyor belt - along with thousands of its gobbling brethren - awaiting its rapture under the guillotine of economic efficiency and other profit-maximizing instruments of death."
• "Just last month a federal judge fined the behemoth Wells Fargo bank (nominally "regulated" by the OCC) $203 million for using "neat tricks" to clear checks in profit-maximizing order to earn "colossal sums.""
• "Once communist regimes today employ most capitalist and profit-maximizing principles, they will be bringing billions more people into a unified economic system, creating new demand that the existing supply base was unable to immediately meet."