profiteer
Example Sentences
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Hence, an episode interwoven with his anti-war, anti-nuke and anti-corporate profiteering planks also enabled him to criticize broadcast media’s lack of inclusion.
From Salon
“The Department of Justice will protect victims and families at all costs, and grief profiteers will be held accountable,” Arizona U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
Banks have acquired a certain reputation for profiteering from customers, especially less well-heeled customers, and playing fast and loose with the facts about their costs and profits.
From Los Angeles Times
Since then, cultural production has multiplied as a “vehicle for entertainment, politics, and profiteering,” but three decades of drought in “pure artistic innovation” have created a “blank space” at the heart of the culture.
According to Ms. Vaill, he revealed his identity to Angelica, by then pregnant with their fourth child, only after he had made a fortune as a Revolutionary War profiteer and settled his debts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
