profiteering
英 [ˌprɒfɪˈtɪərɪŋ] 美 [ˌprɑfəˈtɪrɪŋ]

n.

暴利，不正当利益；

adj.

牟取暴利的；

英英释义

profiteer[ ,prɔfi'tiəriŋ ]

• n.someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)
• v.make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods

双语例句

1. A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
   贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人
2. Rent controls were introduced to prevent profiteering.
   为了防止牟取暴利而 实行了租金管制。

权威例句

Profit-Making or Profiteering?: Proprietaries Target Teacher Education
Militarism and Industry : Arms Profiteering in the Missile Age
Profiteering and the degree of monopoly in the Great Recession: recent evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom
Exploring the Robin Hood effect: Moral profiteering motives for purchasing counterfeit products ☆
Plunder, Predation and Profiteering: The Political Economy of Armed Conflicts and Economic Violence in Modern Africa
The Value of Bodies: Deception, Helping and Profiteering in Human Trafficking Along the Thai-Lao Border
Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century by Carolyn Nordstrom
Systematization of Film Censorship in Colonial Korea: Profiteering from Hollywood's First Golden Age, 1926-1936
Plunder Drugs: Why Americans Believe They Have to Put Up with Pharmaceutical Profiteering
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