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▪ I. profiteer, n.|prɒfɪˈtɪə(r)|
[f. profit n. + -eer; cf. Fr. profiteur (de guerre).]
One who profits; spec. one who seeks to make excessive gain, as by the extortionate sale of necessary goods. Also as second element in war profiteer.
1912Athenæum 21 Dec. 756/3 The fundamental unfairness of the relations between the wage-earner and the ‘profiteer’. 1914Englishwoman Nov. 94 The tricks of the armament profiteers are fresh in the public mind. 1918W. Owen Let. 10 Aug. (1967) 568 All the stinking Leeds & Bradford War-profiteers. 1942W. S. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 130 If there are any would-be profiteers of disaster who feel able to paint the picture in darker colours, they are certainly at liberty to do so. 1952A. Powell Buyer's Market ii. 137 In the twilight world of undergraduate conversation..a kind of stage ‘profiteer’ or ‘tycoon’: a man of Big Business and professionally strong will. 1975New Yorker 21 Apr. 134/3 There have already been reports of some killings in several cities, where government police, tax collectors, war profiteers,..have been among the targets previously announced. 1976Economist 16 Oct. 15/2 The radicals also had..strong support among ex-Red Guards and other profiteers of the 1960s cultural revolution. 1980Times 9 May 15/4 Dante..puts profiteers next door to sodomites in the Seventh Circle of Hell.
▪ II. profiteer, v.|prɒfɪˈtɪə(r)|
[f. prec.]
a. intr. To practise profiteering; to be a profiteer.
1916New Age 17 Feb. 361/1 The companies are..not only removed from the common temptation to profiteer, but are guaranteed a practically fixed income. 1920R. Macaulay Potterism ii. iii. 94 She had merely profiteered out of it all, and had a good time. 1928R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 20 Journalists are..profiteering on the brains of sheep.
b. trans. To obtain (money) by profiteering; to exploit (a person) financially. rare.
1923S. Kaye-Smith End of House of Alard i. 12 He wouldn't lend us any of the money he profiteered out of those collapsible huts. 1928Sunday Express 3 June 13/1 Aren't we being profiteered here? |