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profiteering

noun as in exploitation

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Religious profiteering has spread beyond the tourism industry.

Grotesque profiteering aside, life release ceremonies can devastate the eco-system.

Should Courage give up her war profiteering and settle down to run an honest pub—even if it means abandoning her mute girl?

The next thing I expect is some sort of profiteering off this.

Romney let the Obama campaign pummel and define him as the profiteering-job destroyer from Bain.

There were harsh laws against profiteering in France in 1793—England in 1919 found it necessary to make quite similar laws.

However delicate a definition is framed for 'profiteering,' these packers have preyed upon the people unconscionably.

How, too, can its existence be proved, for high fixed prices are not always an evidence of profiteering methods.

Thus Nehemiah would have had ample precedent to fill his own coffers by injustice, profiteering and worse: he had the power.

And none of us are going to stand profiteering, and broken pledges, and that kind of thing!'

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On this page you'll find 146 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to profiteering, such as: crooked, fraudulent, nefarious, rotten, shady, and unethical.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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