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- noun Plural form of
profiteer .
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Examples
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Indeed, […] it seems that a new generation of profiteers is being groomed to replace the old ones.
Global Voices in English » Morocco: A Decade with Mohammed VI 2009
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Chemical Company Challenges Plan To Distribute Texas Wind Power ... for a powerful example of short term profiteers negating the common good.
TreeHugger 2010
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Shops and businesses, which were ordered to slash their prices two months as part of a controversial crackdown on so-called profiteers, will now be able to increase their charges for commodities such as sugar, cooking oil, chicken and soap as well as phone bills by up to 20 percent, The Herald reported.
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Coalition of the Willing War Profiteers: Australia Blooded'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Australia Reaps Iraqi Harvest - Among the profiteers was the Australian Wheat Board, a former state-owned monopoly, which funneled $A290 million (U.S. $208,887,000) into Saddam\'s coffers even as the Coalition of the Willing was preparing for invasion.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: ��Coalition of the Willing�� War Profiteers: Australia Blooded 2006
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Australia Reaps Iraqi Harvest - Among the profiteers was the Australian Wheat Board, a former state-owned monopoly, which funneled $A290 million (U.S. $208,887,000) into Saddam's coffers even as the Coalition of the Willing was preparing for invasion.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: ��Coalition of the Willing�� War Profiteers: Australia Blooded 2006
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The profiteers are a consequence and not a cause of rising prices.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1914
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So who were the biggest war "profiteers" of the whole process -- why the "Jordanians" of course, never even mentioned or conceived of at its beginning!
Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010
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So who were the biggest war "profiteers" of the whole process -- why the "Jordanians" of course, never even mentioned or conceived of at its beginning!
Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010
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So who were the biggest war "profiteers" of the whole process -- why the "Jordanians" of course, never even mentioned or conceived of at its beginning!
Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010
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With two and a half weeks to go before make-or-break polls, Mugabe's government is desperate to stop price hikes, saying they are the work of "profiteers" who want to stir up discontent against the ruling party.
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