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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Word of the Day

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FIDDLE

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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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