profiteering

英 [ˌprɒfɪˈtɪərɪŋ]

美 [ˌprɑːfɪˈtɪrɪŋ]

n.  牟取暴利

现在分词：profiteering　

经济

BNC.35501 / COCA.26278

牛津词典

noun

• 牟取暴利
  the act of making a lot of money in an unfair way, for example by asking very high prices for things that are hard to get

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 牟取暴利；投机倒把
  Profiteeringinvolves making large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get.
  1. ...a wave of profiteering and corruption.
     投机倒把和腐败的风气

双语例句

• Profiteering: What can I gain from this?
  暴利牟取论：我能从中获得什么好处？
• The full tide of fury against those profiteering on government contracts had not yet risen, and Rhett's words were taken merely as evidence of his own bad breeding.
  当时反对凭政府合同牟利的怒潮还没有兴起，所以瑞德的话也仅仅被当作他自己缺德的明证罢了。
• First, government should check the cornering and profiteering in the real estate market.
  首先，政府应该遏制房地产市场囤积居奇以谋取暴利的行为。
• Other government agencies, such as the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, argue inflation is a result of transport and infrastructure bottlenecks as well as profiteering and price manipulation.
  其它政府机构（如掌握实权的国家发改委）辩称，通胀是运输和基础设施瓶颈、以及投机和价格操纵的结果。
• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-? Business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
  我们同商业金融的垄断势力、机倒把分子、顾后果的银行作业、级敌对、系倾轧、战争财行为进行了斗争，它们是和平的宿敌。
• Cooperative Housing can end real estate market profiteering?
  合作建房能不能终结房地产市场的暴利？
• He was tarred with profiteering brush. Using other people for one's own profit is immoral.
  他因谋取不正当的利益而声名狼籍。利用别人来谋取私利是不道德的。
• It is invidious profiteering those hospitals.
  那些医院简直就是惟利是图。
• A rational society should draw a line Between legitimate profit-making and exploitative profiteering.
  一个理性的社会总应该在正当盈利与暴利剥削之间有一条界限。
• While opposing profiteering and monopoly, we should still allow businessmen to make some money.
  我们反对投机垄断，也要允许商人赚点钱。