Usually means: Exploits situations for excessive profit.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word profiteer:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. profiteer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. profiteer: Merriam-Webster
  3. profiteer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. profiteer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. profiteer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. profiteer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Profiteer, profiteer: Wordnik
  8. profiteer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. profiteer: Wiktionary
  10. profiteer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. profiteer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. profiteer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. profiteer: Dictionary.com
  14. Profiteer (Daoye), The Profiteer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. profiteer: Rhymezone
  16. profiteer: FreeDictionary.org
  17. profiteer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. profiteer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. profiteer: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. profiteer: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profiteer: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (derogatory) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.
verb:  To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.

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