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 chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates