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PROFITEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does profiteer mean?
• PROFITEER (noun)
The noun PROFITEER has 1 sense:
1. someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)
Familiarity information: PROFITEER used as a noun is very rare.
• PROFITEER (verb)
The verb PROFITEER has 1 sense:
1. make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods
Familiarity information: PROFITEER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("profiteer" is a kind of...):
capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))
Derivation:
profit (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))
profiteer (make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: profiteered
Past participle: profiteered
-ing form: profiteering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "profiteer" is one way to...):
benefit; gain; profit (derive a benefit from)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
profiteer (someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply))
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