See profiteer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "spekuliram",
"sense": "to make an unreasonable profit",
"word": "спекулирам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make an unreasonable profit",
"word": "rahastaa"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an unreasonable profit",
"word": "nyerészkedik"
}
],
"word": "profiteer"
}
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