Profiteer
[prɒfɪ'tɪə] or [,prɑfə'tɪə]
解释:
(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.
校对:内奥米--From WordNet
例句:
- He was a typical man of the new Equestrian type, the social equivalent of a modern munition profiteer. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Call them pro-Germans, international financiers, or profiteers, and they will give you any ransom you choose to ask not to speak of them so harshly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The profiteers are a consequence and not a cause of rising prices. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There were harsh laws against profiteering in France in 1793--England in 1919 found it necessary to make quite similar laws. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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