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Definition of Profiteers
1. profiteer [v] - See also: profiteer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profiteers
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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