"profiteer" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/ Forms: profiteers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From profit + -eer. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|profit|eer}} profit + -eer Head templates: {{en-noun}} profiteer (plural profiteers)
  1. (derogatory) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker. Tags: derogatory Categories (topical): Business, Corruption, People Hypernyms: profiter Derived forms: war profiteer Related terms: privateer, profiteering, profit monger, racketeer Translations (one who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by their corresponding assumption of risk): إسْتِغْلَالِيّ (ʔistiḡlāliyy) [masculine] (Arabic), اِنْتِهَازِيّ (intihāziyy) [masculine] (Arabic), спекулант (spekulant) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 奸商 (jiānshāng) (Chinese Mandarin), profiteur (Dutch), kiskuri (Finnish), profiteur [masculine] (French), profiteuse [feminine] (French), Profitmacher [masculine] (German), Profiteur [masculine] (German), nyerészkedő (Hungarian), brabachóir [masculine] (Irish), profittatore (Italian), 모리배 (moribae) (Korean), lucripeta [masculine] (Latin), спекуля́нт (spekuljánt) [masculine] (Russian), спекуля́нтка (spekuljántka) [feminine] (Russian), торга́ш (torgáš) [masculine] (Russian), бары́га (barýga) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), бары́шник (barýšnik) [masculine] (Russian), переку́пщик (perekúpščik) [masculine] (Russian), especulador [masculine] (Spanish), especuladora [feminine] (Spanish), proffidiwr [masculine] (Welsh), budrelwr [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-profiteer-en-noun-~ulIh6LB Disambiguation of Business: 69 31 Disambiguation of Corruption: 87 13 Disambiguation of People: 99 1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -eer Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -eer: 68 32

Verb

IPA: /ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/ Forms: profiteers [present, singular, third-person], profiteering [participle, present], profiteered [participle, past], profiteered [past]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From profit + -eer. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|profit|eer}} profit + -eer Head templates: {{en-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): спекулирам (spekuliram) (Bulgarian), rahastaa (Finnish), nyerészkedik (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-profiteer-en-verb-e07-oDCi

Inflected forms

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    "English terms suffixed with -eer",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)/3 syllables",
    "en:Business",
    "en:Corruption",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "profit",
        "3": "eer"
      },
      "expansion": "profit + -eer",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From profit + -eer.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "profiteers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "profiteering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "profiteered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "profiteered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "profiteer (third-person singular simple present profiteers, present participle profiteering, simple past and past participle profiteered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "profit",
          "profit"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "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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