Definition of profiteering
:the act or activity of making an unreasonable profit on the sale of essential goods especially during times of emergency
- … investigations unearthed information about industrial profiteering during the First World War …
- —Thomas E. Ricks
- The real estate culture in Florida had pushed profiteering to new levels, in large part because of its condominium economy.
- —Paul Reyes
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