Usually means: Exploiting circumstances for excessive profit.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. profiteering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. profiteering: Merriam-Webster
  3. profiteering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. profiteering: Vocabulary.com
  5. Profiteering, profiteering: Wordnik
  6. profiteering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. profiteering: Wiktionary
  8. profiteering: Dictionary.com
  9. Profiteering (business), Profiteering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. profiteering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. profiteering: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Profiteering (disambiguation), profiteering: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profiteering: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (profiteering)

noun:  The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically or opportunistically.

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