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

With the exception of conscientious individuals and organizations, many citizens — especially those of the industrialized world — along with numerous profiteering corporate entities insist on going about business as usual.

From Seattle Times

Those primarily include the economy and inflation, which are global problems and largely beyond Biden's control, although he has failed to effectively challenge corporate profiteering and price-gouging, or even rising pharmaceutical prices.

From Salon

While acknowledging that the ongoing drought in East and Horn of Africa had played a role, Mr Kenyatta seemed to apportion most of the blame on profiteering by privately owned maize millers and political interference.

From BBC