0 a person who takes advantage of a situation in which other people are suffering to make a profit, often by selling goods that are difficult to get at a high price: --
a war profiteer
1 a person or organization that takes unfair advantage of a situation to make a large profit, often by selling goods that are difficult to get at a very high price: --
These regulations must be prayed against because they are oppressive for families with children and seek to justify the most blatant profiteering from nationality applications.
It seems to me to be an object of special pleading in order to get some extra profits for the profiteers.
Profits and wealth that resulted from economic activities that did not conform to these standards were considered illicit and people used the term aischrokerdia (profiteering) to describe them.
Public opinion held the urban retailers and artisans in the food sectors responsible for profiteering and famine.
With foreign demand expanding and extraordinary prices agreed, a golden age for speculators, profiteers, and industrialists began.
This attention to attitudes and relationships among neighbours explains the local purge's interest in profiteers.
Any question of limiting the power of profiteers is looked upon as outside the domain of politics.
Unfortunately, the ethical proscriptions have been emasculated by financial pressures, by increasing commercialism of academic medicine, and by profiteering.
