profiteer
noun
a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
was profiteering
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past progressiveof profiteer.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2020
And simultaneously, to intensify his unease, the notion that profiteering was profiteering, whether in war or in peace, and the notion that F.F. was a man of lofty altruistic ideals, surged through his distracted mind.
From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
Well, when she came home from Europe she found that she owned a row of tenements like this one, and her agent was profiteering in rents like most of the others.
From One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
