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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