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profiteer
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profiteer
a person who makes excessive profits, esp by charging exorbitant prices for goods in short supply


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The Chief Secretary also advised the Home Department and Sindh Police to coordinate and cooperate with DCOs and other relevant nation building department to remove the menace of hoarding, profiteering and sale of substandard items.
Blackpool Council leader Peter Callow said: "These people are profiteering from a charity event - they are no worse than robbers.
If you look at historical records, it is Christian-based armies and Governments which have attacked other regions of the World the majority of the time, and this boils down to the business link , the factor of profiteering from war, oil and construction, which Western Governments have mainly created policies around, to achieve such profiteering.
 
 
 
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