0 the act of taking advantage of a situation in order to make a profit, usually by charging high prices for things people need: --
1 the activity of taking unfair advantage of a situation to make a large profit, often by selling goods that are difficult to get at a very high price: --
The Competition Commission is investigating supermarket prices and accusations of profiteering.
It is like food profiteering in a besieged town.
Prices collapse, there is terrible hardship and indeed terrible profiteering by middlemen.
The attack upon land profiteering has always been a popular radical rallying cry.
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.
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.
As long as health-care technologies continue to reflect gender bias, women will face potential harm in a health-care system under an onslaught of commercializing and profiteering interests.
Profiteering and hoarding were serious problems.
Public opinion held the urban retailers and artisans in the food sectors responsible for profiteering and famine.
