profit center

profit center definition - finance
A part of a business organization that produces profits. A business may be broken down into profit centers to give managers of the various profit centers more accountability about making money.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Comments
Improve this definition.
Do you have more to add? Share your linguistic knowledge or observation.
/Register to save your comments.