profiteer
Meanings
Plural: profiteers
Noun
- someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)
- One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.
Verb
- make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods
- To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.
Origin / Etymology
From profit + -eer.
Scrabble Score: 14
profiteer is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordprofiteer is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
profiteer is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
profiteer is a valid Words With Friends word