Crossword-Solution: PROFITEER
We have 19 clues for the answer “PROFITEER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Exploit a situation to make money | 1 answer |
| someone who makes excessive profit | 1 answer |
| person who makes excessive profits at the expense of the public | 1 answer |
| make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | 1 answer |
| Wartime opportunist | 1 answer |
| One who demands an excessive markup | 1 answer |
| Devote oneself to making excessive gains. | 1 answer |
| Charge too much | 3 answers |
| AN ILLICITLY DISTILLED ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR | 10 answers |
| nouveau riche | 13 answers |
| CONDESCENDING person | 14 answers |
| ARRIVISTE | 15 answers |
| Opportunist | 23 answers |
| Social climber? | 35 answers |
| Lion | 37 answers |
| Profit | 51 answers |
| Prosper | 58 answers |
| Celebrity | 65 answers |
| flourish | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROFITEER (5)
Land speculators had stolen thousands of square miles of valuable land, and during the Napoleonic wars, they had used their capital to "profiteer" in grain and gun-powder, and now they possessed more wealth than they needed for the actual expenses of their households, and they could afford to build themselves factories and to hire men and women to work the machines.
First curiously, then with mounting anger, Clayton read that the wife of a prominent munition manufacturer was being seen constantly in out of the way places with the young architect who was building a palace for her out of the profiteer's new wealth.
Why might not such attempts succeed? Why might not new Slave States be created outside the Union, eventually to be drawn in? Why not? said the slave profiteer, and gave money and assistance to the filibusters in Nicaragua.
The control of British coal-mining and shipping is in the national interests--for international interests--rather than for the creation of that particularly passive, obstructive, and wasteful type of wealth, the wealth of the mere profiteer, is as urgent a necessity for the commercial welfare of France and Italy and the endurance of the Great Alliance as it is for the well-being of the common man in Britain.
They have carried on an amazingly effective campaign in which this British slackness with the individual profiteer, is represented as if it were the deliberate greed of the British state.
Quotes with PROFITEER (3)
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages fall, it is due to the capitalist. Why the capitalist is ineffective when wages rise, and the profiteer when prices fall, the man in the street does not inquire. Nor does he notice that wages and prices rise and fall together. If he is a capitalist, he wants wages to fall and prices to rise; if he is a wage earner, he wants the opposite. When a c…
Excerpt from Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality. Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production o…
In 1987 Senator Jesse Helms, stated "it is no secret that the international bankers profiteer form sovereign state debt. The New York banks have found important profit centers in lending to countries plunged into debt by Socialist regimes. Under Socialist regimes, countries go deeper and deeper into debt because Socialism as an economic system does not work. International bankers are sophisticated enough to understand this phenomenon and they are sophisticated enough to profit from it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1954–2014).