Synonyms for profiteer
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : prof-i-teer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌprɒf ɪˈtɪər |
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Définition of profiteer
Origin :- 1797, but dormant in English until it was revived in World War I, from profit + -eer. From 1912 as a noun. Related: Profiteering (1814).
- Or is it simply hysteria which produces what is to-day termed "the profiteer?" It is probable that the modern profiteer is the same person whom we formerly called "the grafter, the extortioner, the robber, the gouger." ["Legal Aid Review," April 1920]
- As in nouveau riche : noun newly rich
- The profiteer found a fine field in the manufacture of shoddy.
- Extract from : « The Iron Ration » by George Abel Schreiner
- It is the profiteer, not privation, that makes man shake his chains.
- Extract from : « A Revision of the Treaty » by John Maynard Keynes
- It was the policy of the Army not to "profiteer" in the United Kingdom.
- Extract from : « G. H. Q. » by Frank Fox
- Neither did Hindenburg, nor any German war lord, nor any profiteer.
- Extract from : « Now It Can Be Told » by Philip Gibbs
- Silas Angmering had evidently been what is called a profiteer.
- Extract from : « Mr. Prohack » by E. Arnold Bennett
- "I'm awfully sorry I called you a profiteer," he said humbly.
- Extract from : « The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol » by Lewis E. Theiss
- All the practices of the "profiteer" and his ilk are discountenanced by far-seeing people.
- Extract from : « Certain Success » by Norval A. Hawkins
- The profiteer, the shirk, the fraud of any sort, was instantly unmasked.
- Extract from : « Lincoln » by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
- If "The Profiteer" is not the right answer, it's quite a good guess.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 7th, 1920 » by Various
- It is not my purpose to dwell upon those disgraceful landlords who profiteer.
- Extract from : « The Seven Ages of Man » by Ralph Bergengren
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