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Plural for a person who profiteers
“He was, in other words, a war profiteer, though a very unskilled one, unable to survive his exile without borrowing even more money from the brother-in-law who had once sent him smuggling.”
Plural for an opportunist driven by material gain
Plural for wealthy persons lacking in refinement and whose fortunes are newly acquired
To make, or seek to make, an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally
“They were working corruptly in cahoots with the slaughterhouse operators to profiteer off the sale of kosher meat.”
To exploit or profit off something, typically unfairly
“It is about time they stopped trying to profiteer off the back of ordinary working people who are desperate for some way out of a stressful financial situation.”
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