Associations to the word «Profiteer»

Wiktionary

PROFITEER, noun. (pejorative) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.
PROFITEER, verb. To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.

Dictionary definition

PROFITEER, noun. Someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply).
PROFITEER, verb. Make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King