PROFITEER

profiteer

(noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)

profiteer

(verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

profiteer (plural profiteers)

(pejorative) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent seeker.

Hypernyms

• profiter

Verb

profiteer (third-person singular simple present profiteers, present participle profiteering, simple past and past participle profiteered)

To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.

Source: Wiktionary



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