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Profiteer   /prˌɑfətˈɪr/   Listen
Profiteer

noun
1.
Someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply).
verb
1.
Make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods.





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"Profiteer" Quotes from Famous Books



... this book in which the hundred million people can come to feel as if it made a very substantial difference to somebody what they wanted and what they thought—ways in which the hundred million people shall be taken seriously in their own country, and like a Profiteer, or like a noble agitator, or like a free beautiful labor ...
— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee
 
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... for in every community care should be taken that all the members should be provided for, and not only a small number be allowed to grow rich, and revel in luxury to the hurt and prejudice of the many.[7] Thus the doctrine of the just price was a deadly weapon with which to fight the 'profiteer.' The engrosser was looked upon as the natural enemy of the poor; and the power of the trading class was justly reckoned so great, that in cases of doubt prices were always fixed low rather than high. In other words, the buyer—that is to say, the community—was the subject ...
— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien
 
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... that up to a point the profiteer was innocent because he was ignorant; he had been lured on by easy and accommodating events. He was innocent as the new Thane of Glamis was innocent, as the new Thane of Cawdor was innocent; but the King—— The ...
— Eugenics and Other Evils • G. K. Chesterton
 
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... scenes in Monte Carlo, the cosmopolitan chatter, and the vulgar display of the war-rich. The old habitue of pre-war days lifts his hands as he watches the post-war life around the Casino and listens to the loud uneducated chatter of the profiteer's womenfolk. ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux
 
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... think that they have done a smart thing, but in the end Wilson and not Lodge would win by such a trick. The one greatest of vices is smart-aleckism. Sometime I shall write an essay on that subject. The burglar and the confidence operator and the profiteer and the profligate and the defaulting bank cashier are all victims of that disease—smart-aleckism. They will do a trick, to prove how clever they are. I believe that is the way ninety per cent of the ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
 
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