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Profiteer   Listen
noun
profiteer  n.  One who makes an excessive and unconscionable profit by exploiting scarcity or a monopoly position.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Profiteer" Quotes from Famous Books



... people can come to feel as if it made a very substantial difference to somebody what they wanted and what they thought—ways in which the hundred million people shall be taken seriously in their own country, and like a Profiteer, or like a noble agitator, or like a free beautiful ...
— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee

... did not cease with that generation; it is to-day a menace to stable government and to civilization itself. In times of peace we have the profiteer who is guilty of practices which violate all rules of morality even when they do not actually violate statute law. In this "Land of the free and home of the brave," we have been compelled to enact laws to restrain ...
— In His Image • William Jennings Bryan

... 1920, the high cost of living is becoming the strain of life. Capital and Labor are at each other's throats; men cry "profiteer" at those whom good fortune and callous conscience have allowed to take advantage of the world crisis. The air is filled with the whispers that a crash is coming, though the theaters are crowded, the automobile manufacturers are burdened with ...
— The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson



Words linked to "Profiteer" :   gain, profit, capitalist



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