English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. English profiteer
From profit + -eer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun
profiteer (plural profiteers)
- (derogatory) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by their corresponding assumption of risk
- Arabic: إسْتِغْلَالِيّ m (ʔistiḡlāliyy), اِنْتِهَازِيّ m (intihāziyy)
- Bulgarian: спекулант (bg) m (spekulant)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 奸商 (zh) (jiānshāng)
- Dutch: profiteur (nl)
- Finnish: kiskuri (fi)
- French: profiteur (fr) m, profiteuse (fr) f
- German: Profitmacher m, Profiteur (de) m
- Hungarian: nyerészkedő (hu)
- Irish: brabachóir m
- Italian: profittatore (it)
- Korean: 모리배 (ko) (moribae)
- Latin: lucripeta m
- Portuguese: usureiro m
- Russian: спекуля́нт (ru) m (spekuljánt), спекуля́нтка (ru) f (spekuljántka), торга́ш (ru) m (torgáš), бары́га (ru) m or f (barýga), бары́шник (ru) m (barýšnik), переку́пщик (ru) m (perekúpščik)
- Spanish: especulador m, especuladora (es) f, lucrante inescrupuloso m
- Welsh: proffidiwr m, budrelwr m
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Verb
profiteer (third-person singular simple present profiteers, present participle profiteering, simple past and past participle profiteered)
- To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk. [since ca. 1915]
Translations
to make an unreasonable profit
- Bulgarian: спекулирам (bg) (spekuliram)
- Finnish: rahastaa (fi)
- Hungarian: nyerészkedik (hu)
- Russian: наживаться (ru) (naživatʹsja)
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