Profiteer

(noun.) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply).

(verb.) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods.

校对:内奥米

• He was a typical man of the new Equestrian type, the social equivalent of a modern munition profiteer. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Call them pro-Germans, international financiers, or profiteers, and they will give you any ransom you choose to ask not to speak of them so harshly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The profiteers are a consequence and not a cause of rising prices. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There were harsh laws against profiteering in France in 1793--England in 1919 found it necessary to make quite similar laws. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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