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profiteer
noun as in nouveau riche
Example Sentences
The government will set out legislation in Parliament on Monday that will require major care home providers to share their finances with the government, so it can challenge what it describes as profiteering.
The contractor, Zachary Young, was included in a November 2021 segment on war profiteers charging high prices to assist people in fleeing Afghanistan after the U.S. exited.
She accused the series of “exploitation and profiteering” off young stars, writing that Payne would be alive today had he not auditioned.
He said if the UK government “prevents British businesses from enabling Putin's profiteering, then I think you'll start to see others following that lead”.
Indeed, profiteering by consumer companies untethered by competitive concerns played an unmistakable role in the inflation surge over the last couple of years.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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