profiteer in the PONS Dictionary

profiteer Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

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Government agencies were ordered to arrest profiteers, hoarders and looters.
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He is depicted as an accomplished and much-feared soldier, but is morally corrupt and a war profiteer.
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They purchased enormous amounts of food, raw materials, medicine, and coal, and made a small fortune as war profiteers.
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The state should protect against profiteers, disease, unemployment, and market fluctuations.
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He and his companions challenge corrupt bureaucrats and profiteers.
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They said they wanted to punish the authorities for what they do to the nation and described the government as profiteers drinking the blood of the people.
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Protesters claimed that forecourts and oil firms were profiteering.
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War profiteers sold badly made equipment and rancid food at high prices when the war began.
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Pepper likes to consider himself a free spirit, yet in practice he is nothing more than a war profiteer and a drunk.
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Profiteers had helped to finance reparations of war damage.
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