- present tense form of profiteer (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Mutter is the author of The Disaster Profiteers.
From Slate • Sep. 7, 2017
While early Profiteers were both Liberteers and Pioneers, the new breed treats Bitcoin like a penny stock waiting for the next set of suckers.
From Forbes • Aug. 30, 2013
Profiteers sold gasoline for 10 DMs a liter, tap water for 2 DMs a liter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Profiteers, speculators, hoarders and the rest of the parasites are fattening on the vitals of the masses.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Profiteers abounded, taking their pleasures with ravenous greed; for the best of their blood-money would end with the war.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry