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the profiteers
verb
To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.
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The ones that the profiteers didn't get, that is.
"The only people who got better are the profiteers and the privateers".
By the time she polished it, she wanted the profiteers to channel their earnings into nobler causes.
The profiteers are an array of vulpine nasties and asinine greedies who've sold both soul and reason to Old Nick.
Many of the profiteers are notaries public, which in the United States allows them only to validate documents.
Would not the profiteers who rake in millions of dollars from the flourishing heroin trade made possible by the war seek to sabotage any attempts at peace?
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Occupying the profiteer role is her creepy agent ("I'm trying to save all these young girls") and his shadowy Japanese counterpart.
to the profiteer-in-chief.
To convert the business man into the profiteer is to strike a blow at capitalism, because it destroys the psychological equilibrium which permits the perpetuance of unequal rewards.
It was after the war, he says, that came the mercenaries, profiteers and the resistance.
At this moment you have an outraged public against the gun profiteers and the gutless politicians.
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