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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
profiteer .
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Examples
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Her husband is a multi-millionaire who has profiteered from the Iraq War/Occupation!
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The class action lawsuit against various banks and corporations that "profiteered" from apartheid will start in New York on August
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Meanwhile the class action lawsuit against various banks and corporations that "profiteered" from apartheid will start in
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For a long time afterwards, she could only mimic the outsize confidence she had inherited from her mother, a successful Liverpudlian market trader who bullied and cajoled and war profiteered and also drank, heavily, but never failed to tell her daughter that she could do anything she put her mind to.
The Saturday interview: Anne Robinson on leaving Weakest Link 2011
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The robbers (barons) demand that taxpayers replace the money in the banks while those who profiteered keep their profits.
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After the Second World War, companies that profiteered on government contracts were widely condemned as unpatriotic and sometimes prosecuted.
Michael Likosky: Fleecing the USA Again: Non-Performance-Based P3 Banker Fees 2009
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But by way of contrast, consider this: three decades ago, when the oil giants profiteered in the wake of the first oil embargo, almost half the U.S.
Robert Weissman: Democrats and the Gas Price Crisis -- Another Opportunity to be Blown? 2008
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So many others have profiteered from this war, why not me?
Brent Budowsky: After Steve Colbert, Try My New Ice Cream 2008
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They improvised and cut corners; they cheated the rationing system by conspiring with doctors to get special allowances of milk that had been set aside for the sick; they played the black market, thereby consorting with and supporting violent gangs; they profiteered; they scavenged from Jewish fellow citizens who were deported eastward.
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While middle and working class Americans lose their homes and the only equity that may get them through an uncertain future, the companies that profiteered are let off the hook.
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