How to Use profiteer in a Sentence

profiteer

noun

• Over the next 40 years, Meehan proved to be a skilled shapeshifter and profiteer.
  — Longreads, 12 Aug. 2021
• And then there are the profiteers who cash in as the climate crisis takes hold across the United States.
  — Paola Rosa-Aquino, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2019
• Someone who has spent decades as a profiteer of woo might fare well on the campaign trail.
  — Timothy Caulfield, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
• What is more, in many cases the war profiteers also have roles within the state.
  — Tim Eaton, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
• There’s Schindler himself, a Nazi and a war profiteer—and the reason hundreds of Jews survived the Holocaust.
  — Emily Tamkin, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• Oil still drives a boom-and-bust economy, making the state a kind of war profiteer and a staging ground for climate change.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• That’s how its adversaries paint the company in court — as a ruthless profiteer from its patents, some of which date back more than a decade.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Don’t loan your name and your celebrity to a nation of profiteers and panderers and modern slave-drivers.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• But as corporate profiteers take over end-of-life care in the U.S., the system is failing many people in their moment of greatest need.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
• It was issued in bean form because war profiteers were fond of mixing dirt into ground coffee, so Billy Yank got to roast and grind his own.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2020
• The money changers are still the people carrying around a tin cash box, not profiteers thumbing numbers on to a spreadsheet on their tablets.
  — Ray Glier, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
• The crowd was a mix of techie true believers, digital artists in search of a business model, and corporate profiteers.
  — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• If there is, in fact, an information war raging on Twitter, Musk is a profiteer.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2022
• Health care should be run by caregivers dedicated to the mission of healing people and serving the public, not by profiteers and their agents.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• His pick will allow Democrats to renew their charge that Trump is picking financial crisis profiteers to police the beat.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
• Neighbors objected and called him a profiteer, zoning laws stood in his way, and pro-housing politicians balked at stepping in.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2021
• In the days during and after a hurricane, though, a merchant who charges $5 for a gallon of gas or $100 for a sheet of plywood is derided as a shameless profiteer.
  — Jeff Ostrowski, ajc, 5 Sep. 2017
• The chaos is ideal for profiteers making money off migrants.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2019
• The key chess piece is Paul Atreides, who is seeking some payback against those who killed his dad, villains who also happen to the oppressors and profiteers on the spice-rich Arrakis.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• That great profiteer, England, had turned from trafficking to policing, dispatching a Royal Navy squadron to patrol the high seas.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
• Mackey said that the idea goes back to the Civil War, when the federal government had a problem with war profiteers ripping off the army by providing shoddy goods.
  — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 18 May 2017
• Over the course of five episodes, World's Most Wanted profiles a drug kingpin, a war profiteer, a Russian crime boss, a mafia don, and a female terrorist of mythic proportions.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Apparently the ancient Greek orator knew that New York in 1868 was stuffed with cash and war-profiteer millionaires looking for ways to spend it.
  — John Strausbaugh, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
• Ideologues and power-mongers of many sorts, from brazen Black profiteers in Paris to frivolous white do-gooders, fill the frame with their declamations.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
• Goggins eschews theatrics as the film’s chief villain, playing Mathias as a sullen profiteer.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2018
• This could open the floodgates for industry profiteers to stick consumers with bills far surpassing the $1,200 checks promised by the federal government.
  — Daniel Boguslaw, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2020
• But the junk fees fight is one bipartisan angle that will allow Biden to do battle with a group that is hated even more by the public than politicians: corporate profiteers.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
• Seal was a career criminal — an amoral profiteer and daredevil pilot with a fleet of planes who ran all sorts of contraband to all sorts of places, and in the 1970s became one of the biggest cocaine importers in the United States.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• The law was aimed at Airbnb profiteers and leveled the taxation field with hotels, where tourists were already paying occupancy taxes.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2019
• But community residents are enraged, calling the Smiths liars, profiteers, and reckless for bringing the shelter to their town.
  — Christine Coppa, Good Housekeeping, 29 Jan. 2016

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024