profiteern.
/ˌprɒfᵻˈtɪə/, U.S. /ˌprɑfəˈtɪ(ə)r/ A person who makes an excessive or unfair profit, esp. by the sale of necessary goods at extortionate prices.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > profiteering > one who
money-spinner1825
profiteer1912
price gouger1916
1912 Athenæum 21 Dec. 756/3 The fundamental unfairness of the relations between the wage-earner and the ‘profiteer’.
1922 Daily Mail 11 Nov. 5 And Papa Hodge is the sort of profiteer who almost reconciles one to the prospect of a capital levy.
1942 W. 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.
1976 Economist 16 Oct. 15/2 The radicals also had..strong support among ex-Red Guards and other profiteers of the 1960s cultural revolution.
1994 N.Y. Times 11 Sept. xiii. 5/1 (advt.) Profiteers..are looking to capture a share of the public education ‘market’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
profiteerv.
/ˌprɒfᵻˈtɪə/, U.S. /ˌprɑfəˈtɪ(ə)r/ 1. intransitive. To make an excessive or unfair profit; to act as a profiteer.
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1916 New Age 17 Feb. 361/1 The companies are..not only removed from the common temptation to profiteer, but are guaranteed a practically fixed income.
1946 H. L. Mencken Diary 30 Oct. (1989) 423 I..bought another Bible of substantially the same print and binding. The price was $1.50. Even God, it appears, begins to profiteer.
2001 Population & Devel. Rev. 27 225 Some officials reportedly profiteer by rerouting food aid to open markets where it sells at elevated prices.
2. transitive. To obtain (money) by profiteering; to exploit financially.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > profiteer
to rob the spittle1632
to rob the spital1749
to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank1908
profiteer1917
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > exploit for gain
to make a (also one's) market of1713
parlay1901
profiteer1917
1917 Lancaster (Ohio) Daily Eagle 27 Dec. Without the fixing of prices..more than $200,000,000 probably would have been profiteered from the American people by this time.
1923 S. 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.
1937 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 22 Dec. 17/3 Industry profiteered us into the slump.
2003 L. Kahaner Values, Prosperity, & Talmud v. 93 Like food, medical care could be profiteered.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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