Antonyms for profiteering


Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : prof-i-teer
Phonetic Transcription : ˌprɒf ɪˈtɪər


Definition of profiteering

Origin :
  • 1797, but dormant in English until it was revived in World War I, from profit + -eer. From 1912 as a noun. Related: Profiteering (1814).
  • Or is it simply hysteria which produces what is to-day termed "the profiteer?" It is probable that the modern profiteer is the same person whom we formerly called "the grafter, the extortioner, the robber, the gouger." ["Legal Aid Review," April 1920]
  • As in corrupt : adj dishonest
  • As in villainousness : noun corruption
  • As in corruption : noun dishonesty
  • As in exploitation : noun taking advantage
Example sentences :
  • These decreases have come out of the elimination of speculation and profiteering.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
  • Such changes do not come under the category of profiteering.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
  • There are three kinds of speculation and profiteering in the food trades.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
  • I should hope to tell you; he is a butcher who has been arrested three times for profiteering.
  • Extract from : « Jokes For All Occasions » by Anonymous
  • This business of profiteering by the natives is no new phase of life in the Congo.
  • Extract from : « An African Adventure » by Isaac F. Marcosson
  • This meant a run on provisions and profiteering by shopkeepers.
  • Extract from : « Paris Vistas » by Helen Davenport Gibbons
  • How can profiteering be discriminated from legitimate profit-taking?
  • Extract from : « Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII » by Various
  • Not guilty as the inheritor of profiteering in particular, but guilty simply as an inheritor.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Prohack » by E. Arnold Bennett
  • Profiteering since the beginning of the war has been more flagrant than ever.
  • Extract from : « Secret Societies And Subversive Movements » by Nesta H. Webster
  • This fact will absolve me, I think, of any tendency to profiteering.
  • Extract from : « Valere Aude » by Louis Dechmann

Synonyms for profiteering

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