profiteering in the PONS Dictionary

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The complex is said to benefit from war profiteering and the looting of natural resources, often at the expense of the public interest.
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What could have been a stinging black comedy, a smarting satire on greed and profiteering ends up as a mishmash.
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He wants genome information freely available, and he has described as totally immoral and disgusting the idea of profiteering from such research.
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Protesters claimed that forecourts and oil firms were profiteering.
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Plaintiff alleges that these actions have been taken so as to take titles to lands, waters, and airs for the purpose of profiteering and piracy.
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Jia had purged several dissident officials who were opposed to his reforms aimed at limiting official corruption and personal profiteering.
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Socialist groups cited the project as an example of corporate profiteering over public good.
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The modern private military company is also offered as an example of sanctioned war profiteering.
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After the war, he was heavily fined for war profiteering, but continued to practise veterinary medicine eventually dying in reduced circumstances in 1954.
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He made a large amount of money in this endeavor and wasat least from the view of the nationalistsengaged in war profiteering.
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