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Definition of Profiteer

1. Verb. Make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods.

2. Noun. Someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply).

Definition of Profiteer

1. Noun. (pejorative) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk. ¹

2. Verb. To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Profiteer

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Profiteer

profit margins profit monger profit sharing profit taker profit taking profit takings profit warning profit warnings profitabilities profitability

profitable profitableness profitablest profitably profited profiteer (current term) profiteered profiteering profiteers profiter

profiterole profiteroles profiters profitest profiteth profiting profitings profitless profitlessly profitlessness

Literary usage of Profiteer

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

1. The Coming Revolution in Great Britain by Gerald Gould (1920)
"XXIII THE MISUNDERSTOOD profiteer WE pay high prices, then, because the profiteer makes large profits; but do not let us be led astray by the clamour of the ..."

2. An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy by John Moffatt Mecklin (1920)
"... AND THE profiteer Most important in the ethics of business enterprise is the part played by profits.1 If money provides ..."

3. An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy by John Moffatt Mecklin (1920)
"... AND THE profiteer Most important in the ethics of business enterprise is the part played by profits.1 If money provides the standard of measures it is ..."

4. The Destiny of the American City by John Frederick Hessel (1922)
"TAXATION AND THE profiteer New tax laws with further penalties on success and thrift ... To enact tax laws for penalizing the profiteer is good legislation, ..."

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