profiteer 的 2 个定义
- a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
- to act as a profiteer.
profiteer 近义词
等同于 nouveau riche
更多profiteer例句
- Philadelphia’s local real estate lobby launched a press campaign that sought to distinguish what the industry today calls “mom-and-pop landlords” from the popularly vilified “rent profiteers.”
- Indeed, some of the biggest profiteers from this week’s market action are asset managers like BlackRock, market-makers like Citadel, and the private equity giant Silver Lake.
- In their eyes, Rove is more Wizard of Oz than Architect, more profiteer than player.
- Had he kept the money he will earn from his memoirs, he would surely have been condemned as some kind of war profiteer.
- The law of supply and demand, as applied to eggs, together with the local brand of profiteer, was the cause.
- The speculation and graft were colossal, and beyond the most extravagant dreams of the British brand of war profiteer.
- It is not my purpose to dwell upon those disgraceful landlords who profiteer.
- I nearly asked if he was a little dog-fish—this being the Italian for profiteer, but refrained in time.
- In the selfishness of the "profiteer," as we now call him, Punch sees a sure provocative of Communism.