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Meanings of profiteer in English

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Usage of profiteer in English
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The profiteer, the shirk, the fraud of any sort, was instantly unmasked.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
2
After this confession of an involuntary profiteer the tax was agreed to.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917
3
Harare City Council repeatedly warned the veterans not to profiteer from the situation.
The Irish Times
4
That profiteer wasn't me, and I had to doubt that it was him.
Year's best sf 15
5
Neither did Hindenburg, nor any German war lord, nor any profiteer.
Now It Can Be Told
6
Violence broke out again in 1997, and this time Missamou became a war profiteer.
Reuters
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He said statements from AstraZeneca themselves had suggested they were not looking to profiteer.
News.com.au
8
Is this young man her saviour, or a profiteer taking advantage of her weakness?
The sealed letter
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But we will not profiteer from this calamity by putting up prices,'' he added.
BBC
10
The common man retorted with the epithet of "damned profiteer" and worse.
Poor Man's Rock
11
I have some urgent business to discuss with her before your profiteer friends arrive.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
12
Silas Angmering had evidently been what is called a profiteer.
Mr. Prohack
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The story goes that his father made his fortune as a profiteer during the war.
Goodbye dolly
14
Morgan was not the only upperworld Civil War profiteer.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
15
That depends upon who is the profiteer- apointwhich no one seems to have settled.
Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
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War wages inclined every man to become a profiteer.
The Masques of Ottawa
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