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Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi?
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profiteering
Word definitions for profiteering in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Profiteering may refer to: Profiteering (business) (during peacetime) War profiteering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ As food supplies dwindled, complaints against profiteering became more vociferous. ▪ The emergency government brought in a special law to prevent hoarding and profiteering . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He denies there is any ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically vb. (present participle of profiteer English)
Usage examples of profiteering.
He was a biologist banned from Brazil for black-market profiteering and for crimes against the indigenous people.
Rio that night: those who were terrified of the meteors, those who were profiteering from it, and those who were anxious to see what they could of the big show.
George, where radicals, socialists, Democrats, Republicans, nonpolitical students, highly political scientists, and their women-all against Industrial Parks, smog, tract houses, foundations-not-paying-taxes, profiteering in 7-million-dollar Saturn and Polaris missiles, Presidents with weak hearts, with weak backs, et cetera, et cetera .
After several decades of wild industrial growth, financial manipulation, uncontrolled speculation and profiteering, it all collapsed: 642 banks failed and 16,000 businesses closed down.
He could remember the rabbits, the rerouting on the longer track, the protestors, the anger, the questions as to which land was to be used, and the accusations of profiteering.
A joint committee of Congress and the council met and, on April 3, recommended a court-martial on the first, second, third, and fifth charges, having to do with profiteering and the use of public property for private ends.
It would be party political profiteering and I want no part of that.
The scarcities, inflation, taxes, and profiteering, the incessant worries and enmities of war, were all ever-present.