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Profiteer   /prˌɑfətˈɪr/   Listen
Profiteer

verb
1.
Make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods.





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"Profiteer" Quotes from Famous Books



... teens were found dead back of the barricades with thousand lire notes in their pockets, and that German agents came during the first hours of the strike and spread money lavishly to make the riot a rebellion. Probably this is true. The profiteer made the strike possible. It was an opportunity for rebellion, and Germany took the opportunity. Always she is on hand with spies to buy what she cannot honestly win. Reluctantly we turned our faces from Italy to ...
— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White
... decency's name. Nobody wants to swank, to sit in the front of a box like a geranium on a window-sill—"the cynosure of many eyes." Nobody wants to profiteer. We all feel that it is as humiliating to pay high prices as to charge them. No man consents in his heart to pay high prices unless he feels that what he pays with his right hand he will get back with his left, either out of the pocket of a man who isn't looking, or out of the envy of the poor ...
— Touch and Go • D. H. Lawrence


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


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