profiteering
Example Sentences
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We can halt low-wage worker abuses and evasions, raise the minimum wage, crack down on landlord profiteering, rebuild the labor movement and redistribute government assistance.
From Washington Post
Sugar became so integral to European profiteering that it started being produced on a global scale.
From Salon
Mr. Whitehouse argued that the legislation would “curb profiteering by oil companies and provide Americans relief at the gas pump.”
From Washington Times
In one article published in China's Global Times, the US is accused of profiteering from selling weapons to Ukraine.
From BBC
For instance, when he spoke Tuesday about banning Russian oil imports, he preemptively berated the petroleum industry for any attempt at “excessive price increases” and “profiteering or price gouging.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
