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Definition of profiteer in English: profiteerverb prɒfɪˈtɪəˌprɑfəˈtɪr [no object]often as noun profiteeringMake or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally. （尤指从事非法或黑市交易）牟取暴利，获得暴利；投机 seven food merchants were charged with profiteering 七名食品商被指控牟取暴利。 Example sentencesExamples - He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread.
- In other words, everything would have been fine if Andy had just kept his sideboard profiteering in check.
- ‘They are profiteering from it and we should be making it clear that the time is up for them,’ he stated.
- So we must contend that this was just a shot at profiteering that they thought they'd get away with but got caught.
- The people profiteering off of the growth perpetuate the problem and have a human obligation to correct the problems.
- There may be as much ideology here as profiteering, but we don't yet know.
- While war can result in profit for a few, it is not the case that the entire system of a free economy depends on such wartime profiteering.
- Of course, facilitators like Joe see no ethical conflict in profiteering on their connections.
- As a result of the restrictions and profiteering, farmers left crops to rot in the fields and there are reports of malnutrition.
- Science has played into the hands of reaction and extreme-right profiteering since the days of the Industrial Revolution.
- In this case, however, I suspect the motivation is just good old-fashioned profiteering.
- To prevent profiteering on bad news, the wagers would have been kept small.
- We repeat our central point that what is needed to combat profiteering across a wide range of goods is price control on essential goods and services.
- ‘No one is going to be seen to be profiteering from these tragic events,’ one senior trader said at the weekend.
- Possibly they were simply profiteering from the sudden influx of US support, or stocking up in anticipation of a future power struggle.
- Land would only be released to young locals who wished to settle in the area, and financial rules would be put in place to prevent profiteering if they wanted to sell and move on.
- Banks and ATM operators must not be allowed to engage in profiteering at the expense of people in rural and regional areas.
- US and French delegates immediately rejected the idea declaring that it could lead to smuggling and profiteering.
- Vendors and seamstresses are profiteering from the sale of these items, and those interviewed have said that they are just trying to make a living.
- Overall, their problem was not middlemen profiteering but inadequate demand.
Synonyms overcharge, racketeer, make an excessive/illegal profit informal make a fast/quick buck, make a quick killing extortion, racketeering, exploitation British Rachmanism
noun prɒfɪˈtɪəˌprɑfəˈtɪr A person who profiteers. 投机商，奸商；牟取暴利者 一名战时投机商。 Example sentencesExamples - It is not hyperbole to say that those beneficiaries of wartime tax cuts and contract deals should now be called war profiteers.
- That can then lay the basis for future battles to begin rolling back privatisation and drive the profiteers out of public services.
- So the futures of over 3500 workers and their families are under threat from profiteers who are unaccountable to these workers or to anyone else - unaccountable to any franchise other than their major shareholders.
- The experience tilted the historical scales towards the war profiteers and the army's most successful commander - Napoleon Bonaparte.
- In a country that promotes the virtues of the free market, he died for the benefit of the war profiteers and for very little benefit to himself.
- To the region's hydroelectric profiteers, this means that ‘their’ generators are being ‘robbed’ of kilowatt dollars by juvenile salmon.
- It will become even harder to swing public opinion behind humanitarian interventions if war profiteers and racist thugs are direct beneficiaries.
- While some people were busy fighting and dying, war profiteers made fortunes selling rotten food, unserviceable uniforms and non-working weapons.
- They had an affiliation with mobsters, drug dealings, illegal profiteers, and more, where they would store money, risk-free and securely, for everyone.
- The streets, once bustling with peddlers, coca farmers and shady profiteers are now quiet at night.
- Scorsese has achieved a first here: making a film that celebrates a war profiteer.
- The city's streets are congested with men pushing heavy bricks and building materials on carts among the sport utility vehicles of relief workers, government officials, diplomats and drug profiteers.
- The report pointed out some of the worst of the war profiteers.
- They chanted anti-government slogans and carried placards denouncing the war profiteers.
- I also see the other side of the coin, and I believe that most of the companies in the cleanup game are no better than war profiteers.
- Without warning, they proceeded to side with the corporate war profiteers, and use violence to suppress nonviolent free speech.
- The beneficiaries were profiteers from war industries whose boldly flaunted new wealth intensified social tensions.
- He was, in other words, a war profiteer - though a very unskilled one, unable to survive his exile without borrowing even more money from the brother-in-law who had once sent him smuggling.
- Until the public shakes loose the iron grip of these money-grabbing profiteers, crime and the prison population will continue to rise.
- As wars create profiteers and environmental destruction, they also raise the opportunity for building real democratic control from below over the earth's richest resources.
Synonyms extortionist, extortioner, racketeer, exploiter, black marketeer in Japan yakuza informal bloodsucker Australian informal urger
Rhymesadhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre Definition of profiteer in US English: profiteerverbˌprɑfəˈtɪrˌpräfəˈtir [no object]Make or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally or in a black market. （尤指从事非法或黑市交易）牟取暴利，获得暴利；投机 the profiteering of tabloid journalists Example sentencesExamples - He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread.
- Science has played into the hands of reaction and extreme-right profiteering since the days of the Industrial Revolution.
- ‘No one is going to be seen to be profiteering from these tragic events,’ one senior trader said at the weekend.
- US and French delegates immediately rejected the idea declaring that it could lead to smuggling and profiteering.
- The people profiteering off of the growth perpetuate the problem and have a human obligation to correct the problems.
- So we must contend that this was just a shot at profiteering that they thought they'd get away with but got caught.
- While war can result in profit for a few, it is not the case that the entire system of a free economy depends on such wartime profiteering.
- Possibly they were simply profiteering from the sudden influx of US support, or stocking up in anticipation of a future power struggle.
- Of course, facilitators like Joe see no ethical conflict in profiteering on their connections.
- In this case, however, I suspect the motivation is just good old-fashioned profiteering.
- ‘They are profiteering from it and we should be making it clear that the time is up for them,’ he stated.
- We repeat our central point that what is needed to combat profiteering across a wide range of goods is price control on essential goods and services.
- Overall, their problem was not middlemen profiteering but inadequate demand.
- There may be as much ideology here as profiteering, but we don't yet know.
- As a result of the restrictions and profiteering, farmers left crops to rot in the fields and there are reports of malnutrition.
- Land would only be released to young locals who wished to settle in the area, and financial rules would be put in place to prevent profiteering if they wanted to sell and move on.
- Banks and ATM operators must not be allowed to engage in profiteering at the expense of people in rural and regional areas.
- In other words, everything would have been fine if Andy had just kept his sideboard profiteering in check.
- Vendors and seamstresses are profiteering from the sale of these items, and those interviewed have said that they are just trying to make a living.
- To prevent profiteering on bad news, the wagers would have been kept small.
Synonyms overcharge, racketeer, make an excessive profit, make an illegal profit extortion, racketeering, exploitation
nounˌprɑfəˈtɪrˌpräfəˈtir A person who profiteers. 投机商，奸商；牟取暴利者 一名战时投机商。 Example sentencesExamples - I also see the other side of the coin, and I believe that most of the companies in the cleanup game are no better than war profiteers.
- The report pointed out some of the worst of the war profiteers.
- Without warning, they proceeded to side with the corporate war profiteers, and use violence to suppress nonviolent free speech.
- They chanted anti-government slogans and carried placards denouncing the war profiteers.
- Until the public shakes loose the iron grip of these money-grabbing profiteers, crime and the prison population will continue to rise.
- It will become even harder to swing public opinion behind humanitarian interventions if war profiteers and racist thugs are direct beneficiaries.
- Scorsese has achieved a first here: making a film that celebrates a war profiteer.
- The city's streets are congested with men pushing heavy bricks and building materials on carts among the sport utility vehicles of relief workers, government officials, diplomats and drug profiteers.
- The experience tilted the historical scales towards the war profiteers and the army's most successful commander - Napoleon Bonaparte.
- He was, in other words, a war profiteer - though a very unskilled one, unable to survive his exile without borrowing even more money from the brother-in-law who had once sent him smuggling.
- While some people were busy fighting and dying, war profiteers made fortunes selling rotten food, unserviceable uniforms and non-working weapons.
- That can then lay the basis for future battles to begin rolling back privatisation and drive the profiteers out of public services.
- They had an affiliation with mobsters, drug dealings, illegal profiteers, and more, where they would store money, risk-free and securely, for everyone.
- The beneficiaries were profiteers from war industries whose boldly flaunted new wealth intensified social tensions.
- It is not hyperbole to say that those beneficiaries of wartime tax cuts and contract deals should now be called war profiteers.
- As wars create profiteers and environmental destruction, they also raise the opportunity for building real democratic control from below over the earth's richest resources.
- So the futures of over 3500 workers and their families are under threat from profiteers who are unaccountable to these workers or to anyone else - unaccountable to any franchise other than their major shareholders.
- In a country that promotes the virtues of the free market, he died for the benefit of the war profiteers and for very little benefit to himself.
- To the region's hydroelectric profiteers, this means that ‘their’ generators are being ‘robbed’ of kilowatt dollars by juvenile salmon.
- The streets, once bustling with peddlers, coca farmers and shady profiteers are now quiet at night.
Synonyms extortionist, extortioner, racketeer, exploiter, black marketeer
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