profiteer

English

Etymology

From profit +‎ -eer.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

profiteer (plural profiteers)

1. (derogatory) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent seeker.

Hypernyms

• profiter

Related terms

• profiteering
• profit monger

Translations

one who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by their corresponding assumption of risk

• Arabic: إسْتِغْلَالِيّ m (ʔistiḡlāliyy), اِنْتِهَازِيّ m (intihāziyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奸商 (zh) (jiānshāng)

• Dutch: profiteur (nl)
• Finnish: kiskuri (fi)
• French: profiteur (fr) m, profiteuse (fr) f
• German: Profitmacher m, Profiteur (de) m
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• Hungarian: nyerészkedő
• Irish: brabachóir m
• Italian: profittatore
• Korean: 모리배 (ko) (moribae)
• Latin: lucripeta m
• Russian: спекуля́нт (ru) m (spekuljánt), спекуля́нтка (ru) f (spekuljántka), торга́ш (ru) m (torgáš), бары́га (ru) m or f (barýga), бары́шник (ru) m (barýšnik), переку́пщик (ru) m (perekúpščik)
• Welsh: proffidiwr m, budrelwr m

Verb

profiteer (third-person singular simple present profiteers, present participle profiteering, simple past and past participle profiteered)

1. To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.

Translations

to make an unreasonable profit

• Finnish: rahastaa (fi)
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• Hungarian: nyerékszedik