单词 | profit-mongering |
释义 | > as lemmasprofit-mongering profit-mongering adj. and n. ΚΠ 1846 Young Amer. 14 Feb. 4/2 Non-producing, hired labor-forcing, wages-reducing and profit-mongering capitalists. 1884 W. Morris in Justice 17 May 2/2 Ugliness is but a part of the bestial waste of the whole system of profit-mongering, which refuses cultivation and refinement to the workers. 1951 J. W. Allen Hist. Polit. Thought in 16th Cent. ii. iii. 153 Waste and mere profit-mongering should have been eliminated. 1997 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 6 Mar. 3 c Medical decision-making is the realm of the physician, not the profit-mongering insurance companies. < as lemmas |
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