单词 | profiteering |
释义 | profiteeringn. The action or fact of making an excessive or unfair profit, esp. by the sale of necessary goods at extortionate prices. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > profiteering profiteering1814 plunderbund1902 money-spinning1932 1814 Guernsey Star & Gaz. in New Age (1919) 21 Aug. 278/2 The extortionate profiteering that is being practised by the tradesmen in the public market. 1913 G. D. H. Cole World of Labour xiii. 410 Could all profiteering be eliminated, the State would be set free to work for the deepening of national life. 1939 A. Thirkell Before Lunch xii. 307 He said he'd take a hundred more for it than he gave. No, no, I said... No profiteering. I'll give what you gave. 1976 F. Zweig New Acquisitive Society ii. v. 112 Profiteering could also cover excessive or illegitimate rents. 1995 Nation 17 Apr. 541/1 Whether that's just good marketing, or..‘obvious profiteering’ is in the eye of the beholder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). profiteeringadj. That acts as a profiteer. ΚΠ 1915 Independent Labour Party Manifesto in Times 18 June 10/5 The wicked useless slaughter of the workers now being carried on in the interest of the profiteering classes. 1943 R. G. Massock Italy from Within xvii. 240 A high official of the Ministry of Corporations hoarded in his own home truckloads of foodstuffs seized from profiteering shopkeepers. 1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 126 That profiteering, hungry amoeba-like being that had not yet metamorphosed into an empire, the East India Company. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1814adj.1915 |
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