profiteering

英 [ˌprɒfɪˈtɪərɪŋ]

美 [ˌprɑːfɪˈtɪrɪŋ]

n.  牟取暴利

现在分词：profiteering　

经济

BNC.35501 / COCA.26278

牛津词典

noun

• 牟取暴利
  the act of making a lot of money in an unfair way, for example by asking very high prices for things that are hard to get

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 牟取暴利；投机倒把
  Profiteeringinvolves making large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get.
  1. ...a wave of profiteering and corruption.
     投机倒把和腐败的风气

双语例句

• "The media profile can become toxic if they are seen to be overly profiteering or mercenary," Macleod said." They just need to be careful that they don't step on the wrong side of tastefulness. "
  “媒体关注也可能有害，如果他们被视为是过度谋利或唯利是图，”麦克劳德说，“他们必须小心，不能站到有品位的对立面。”
• It is invidious profiteering those hospitals.
  那些医院简直就是惟利是图。
• Public outrage erupted this month in China over profiteering in the funeral industry, and the outcry even spilled into the state-controlled press on the traditional tomb-sweeping festival, when Chinese honour the dead.
  民众对殡葬业暴利行为的愤怒在本月爆发，甚至国有媒体也在祭奠亡者的传统节日清明节发出了反对的声音。
• A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
  贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人。
• The profiteering problem of non-profit organizations refers to that the NPO deviate their non-profit principle.
  非营利组织的营利问题是指非营利组织对其非营利性原则的背离。
• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-? Business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
  我们同商业金融的垄断势力、机倒把分子、顾后果的银行作业、级敌对、系倾轧、战争财行为进行了斗争，它们是和平的宿敌。
• Then too, the values implicit in motherhood were bound to clash with the "male values" of competitiveness and devil-may-care profiteering.
  这样，母性中隐含的价值又必然与不顾一切地谋取暴利且具竞争性的“男性价值”起冲突。
• Cooperative Housing can end real estate market profiteering?
  合作建房能不能终结房地产市场的暴利？
• The houses have become a few rich people's means of cornering and profiteering.
  住宅成了少数一些富人囤积居奇谋取暴利的手段。
• The people will stop your profiteering schemes, and the people will win.
  人民将阻止你们牟取暴利的诡计，人民必胜。