profiteering 的定义
- the act or practice of seeking exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods: The companies who raised prices before, during, or after the hurricane were charged with profiteering.
profiteering 近义词
等同于 corrupt
profiteering 的近义词 40 个
- crooked
- fraudulent
- nefarious
- rotten
- shady
- unethical
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- base
- bent
- debauched
- exploiting
- fixed
- foul
- open
- padded
- reprobate
- tainted
- bribable
- double-dealing
- extortionate
- faithless
- fast and loose
- gone to the dogs
- inconstant
- iniquitous
- knavish
- mercenary
- on the take
- perfidious
- praetorian
- racket up
- snide
- treacherous
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unprincipled
- wide open
profiteering 的反义词 21 个
等同于 villainousness
profiteering 的近义词 36 个
- bestiality
- bribery
- crime
- crookedness
- demoralization
- depravity
- exploitation
- extortion
- fraud
- graft
- immorality
- jobbery
- malfeasance
- misrepresentation
- nepotism
- payoff
- payola
- perversion
- racket
- shadiness
- shuffle
- skimming
- squeeze
- turpitude
- unscrupulousness
- venality
- vice
- villainy
- wickedness
- breach of trust
- bribing
- fiddling
- flagitiousness
- fraudulency
- on the take
- shady deal
profiteering 的反义词 2 个
等同于 corruption
等同于 exploitation
更多profiteering例句
- Illinois attempted to take a strong stand against adoption profiteering in a 2005 adoption-reform act, which barred out-of-state, for-profit intermediaries from engaging in adoption-related activities in the state.
- As we’ve heard so far, a peer-reviewed economic analysis shows these firms behave in a variety of ways that seem closer to profiteering than just profit-maximizing.
- He’s used data to show profiteering at a mental health hospital and questionable practices in local law enforcement agencies.
- It has lobbied public-pension investors and members of Congress to press the firm to return its dividends to the company, saying its profiteering has put Prospect’s safety-net hospitals at risk.
- Religious profiteering has spread beyond the tourism industry.
- Grotesque profiteering aside, life release ceremonies can devastate the eco-system.
- Should Courage give up her war profiteering and settle down to run an honest pub—even if it means abandoning her mute girl?
- The next thing I expect is some sort of profiteering off this.
- Romney let the Obama campaign pummel and define him as the profiteering-job destroyer from Bain.
- There were harsh laws against profiteering in France in 1793—England in 1919 found it necessary to make quite similar laws.
- However delicate a definition is framed for 'profiteering,' these packers have preyed upon the people unconscionably.
- How, too, can its existence be proved, for high fixed prices are not always an evidence of profiteering methods.
- Thus Nehemiah would have had ample precedent to fill his own coffers by injustice, profiteering and worse: he had the power.
- And none of us are going to stand profiteering, and broken pledges, and that kind of thing!'