profiteering
Example Sentences
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Due to cost pressures, major consumer goods companies and supermarkets have pushed up prices, but have denied "profiteering".
From BBC
But in March the Unite union accused some supermarkets of "fuelling inflation by excessive profiteering".
From BBC
Nationalist Chinese commentators often accuse American arms dealers of profiteering from the war in Ukraine.
From Washington Post
But market forces, turbocharged by profiteering, turned that ambitious effort into a source of political division and economic distress in Europe’s formerly Communist eastern lands.
From New York Times
As Mr. Biden sees it, the meat industry is dominated by four global companies that are abusing their market power by profiteering off the pandemic.
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
