profiteer

英 [ˌprɒfɪˈtɪə(r)]

美 [ˌprɑːfɪˈtɪr]

n.  奸商; 投机商; 牟取暴利的人
vi.  投机; 牟求暴利

复数：profiteers　现在分词：profiteering　过去式：profiteered　第三人称单数：profiteers　过去分词：profiteered　

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BNC.37981 / COCA.28703

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 奸商；投机商；牟取暴利的人
  If you describe someone as aprofiteer, you are critical of them because they make large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get.
  1. ...a new social class composed largely of war profiteers and gangsters.
     主要由战争投机商和强盗组成的新的社会阶层

英英释义

noun

• someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)

verb

• make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods

双语例句

• It is because advertisements have powerful influence that the profiteer often tricks the public by them.
  因为广告拥有巨大的影响使得获利者通过他们欺骗群众。
• If the air is recalculated in e.g. the food industry a less effective profiteer can be used.
  如果空气是再循环的，比如食品工业，可以用低效的前置过滤器。
• This demonstrates that you're not trying to profiteer here& you genuinely have your buddy's best interest at heart.
  这表明你并不想借此牟取暴利&你真诚地关心好友的核心利益。
• She has also opened a boutique, and earned herself the reputation for being the first "Chinese profiteer" in Egypt.
  而且自己还开了一个服装店，号称是第一个埃及中文“倒爷”。
• Other side, sport itself is the main profiteer owing to the sport's charitable and public feature.
  另一方面，由于体育具有公益性和全民性的特点，体育本身也成为发行彩票的主要受益者。
• You have called me a IIAR and a thief and a war profiteer!
  你说我是个骗子，小偷，发战争财！
• Fujian is especially outstanding, jumping from a small gold producing province to a big gold producer and big profiteer.
  尤为突出的是福建省，从一个产金小省一跃成为产量、效益大省。
• Lucky to buy the right one in chance, unlucky to resell or have to gift to the other person while the product is not fit only themselves; consumers but also cannot get favorable protection if some profiteer use e-commerce platform selling fake and low-quality commodities.
  运气好的就买到合适的产品，运气不好的，东西不适合或者不满意，只能自己转卖或者送人；在不良商家利用电子商务平台销售假冒伪劣商品时，消费者更是无法得到有效的保护。
• He tried to profiteer from this dirty deal.
  他想在这笔肮脏的交易中捞一把。