Definition of Profiteers

1. Noun. (plural of profiteer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Profiteers

1. profiteer [v] - See also: profiteer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Profiteers

profit taker
profit taking
profit takings
profit warning
profit warnings
profitabilities
profitability
profitable
profitableness
profitablest
profitably
profited
profiteer
profiteered
profiteering
profiteers (current term)
profiter
profiterole
profiteroles
profiters
profitest
profiteth
profiting
profitings
profitless
profitlessly
profitlessness
profitmaking
profits
profitseeking

Literary usage of Profiteers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Passion of Labour by Robert Lynd (1921)
"VIII profiteers HARD things have been said about profiteers during the last few years. ... The profiteers, I imagine, having survived so many centuries as a ..."

2. The Passion of Labour by Robert Lynd (1921)
"VIII profiteers HARD things have been said about profiteers during the last few years. ... The profiteers, I imagine,-having survived so many centuries as a ..."

3. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"... or the Rose Pastor Stokes right in what she conceives, when she says, "I am not for the government that is being run in the interests of profiteers. ..."

4. Making Woodrow Wilson President by William Frank McCombs, Louis Jay Lang (1921)
"... ASSAILS "PAP HUNTERS" AND "BLANK-CHECK profiteers". [EDITOR'S NOTE — This chapter is compiled from Mr. McCombs' notes.] MR. McCOMBS was "drafted" for ..."

5. Selected Articles on Social Insurance by Julia Emily Johnsen (1922)
"... according to their experience, I cannot believe that any budding socialistic statesman can get anywhere on that platform. profiteers ON ECONOMIC ..."

6. Triumphant Plutocracy: The Story of American Public Life from 1870 to 1920 by Richard Franklin Pettigrew (1921)
"THE profiteers The test of a man or of a social system is the way he acts in a crisis. The great war was the crisis that tested American capitalism and that ..."

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