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

Entsminger accused special interests of “drought profiteering” by seeking inflated payments for reducing water use.

From Scientific American

UN Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled a new report Wednesday about the global effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and took aim at the fossil fuel sector, which has been widely accused of war profiteering.

From Salon

President Biden has accused oil companies of profiteering off surging energy prices and Britain, home of BP and Shell, has announced a special tax on the industry’s “extraordinary” profits.

From New York Times