profiteer

Example Sentences

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They also would risk casting Saudi Arabia in the role of profiteer in a war it didn’t start.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Often, he now ends favorable reviews with a plea to “bossman,” which can mean the owner or the person at the cash register, to resist the urge to profiteer.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2022

The housing and levelling up secretary has said the government would go after firms that "cut corners" and "sought to profiteer" from the Grenfell tragedy.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2022

Meanwhile, Philadelphia abruptly cut off a vaccine clinic operator amid concerns that it had sought to profiteer from the work.

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2021

Oskar Schindler has been called many names: scoundrel, womanizer, war profiteer, drunk.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson