| 单词 | profiteer |
| 释义 | profiteer (once / 8510 pages) nv To profiteer is to take advantage of a situation or a person in order to make money. A landlord might profiteer during a housing shortage by doubling rents. When you profiteer, you don't just profit — you profit more than you should at the expense of someone else. You can also call a person who does this a profiteer. Profiteers famously take advantage of things like scarce food or ongoing conflicts to make a lot of money. The word existed but wasn't commonly used in English until World War I, when journalists started talking about "war profiteers" who benefited financially from shortages and desperation. WORD FAMILYprofiteer: profiteered, profiteering, profiteers+/nonprofit: nonprofits/profit: nonprofit, profitable, profited, profiteer, profiting, profitless, profits, profitting/profitable: profitability, profitableness, profitabler, profitablest, profitably, unprofitable/profitless: profitlessly/unprofitable: unprofitability, unprofitableness, unprofitably USAGE EXAMPLESPerhaps this profiteering on the pain of working families is yet another reason why he refuses to show his taxes. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) The A.C.L.U. objects to private prisons as a matter of principle, he said, adding that they engage in “profiteering.” New York Times(Dec 03, 2016) Mr Modi has painted his critics as whiny profiteers who are running scared of his crusade. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) 1n someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) Hyper capitalist a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) 2v make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods Hyper benefit, gain, profit derive a benefit from |
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