profiteer

How To Use profiteer In A Sentence

• The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
• Even if it wasn't clear enough back when he assembled his "team of rivals" and welcomed Wall Street into his administration, it has been absolutely clear at least since he capitulated to "counterinsurgent" generals and their civilian enablers, and to health care profiteers, that, whatever he may think and feel "inside," Obama is not one of the "good guys. Andrew Levine: Obama Winter and How to Combat It
• Vendors and seamstresses are profiteering from the sale of these items, and those interviewed have said that they are just trying to make a living.
• They had an affiliation with mobsters, drug dealings, illegal profiteers, and more, where they would store money, risk-free and securely, for everyone.
• Whether real estate is a big industry needs price flexibility, why real estate industry, known as profiteering industry, and many local real high?
• It trades grain amid food riots and has been accused of profiteering and environmental offences in numerous poor and war-torn countries. Times, Sunday Times
• Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
• A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals.
• Is this shameless profiteering from peoples fears or is there a credible threat.
• He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread.