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Definition: Profiteer |
ProfiteerNoun1. Someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply). Verb1. Make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Profiteer (1919) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The profiteer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Profiteer watching inflated prices lower. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Profiteer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Profiteer" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "profiteer": war profiteer. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
profiteer war | 6 |
card profiteer war | 4 |
card deck profiteer war | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "profiteer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spekuloj (speculate, trade on), spekulator (carpetbagger, speculator, spiv), afarist (businessman, speculator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفعي (expedient, opportunist, pragmatic), حقق أرباح باهظة, الإ ستغلالى من يربح الربح الفاحش, إنتهازي (machiavellian, opportunist, pusher, pushful, pushy), إستغلالي (scrounger, sweater), إستغل (avail, exploit, follow up, harness, impose, milk, presume, quarry, take advantage of, tap, trade on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 獲暴利者 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zbohatlík (mushroom, upstart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اهل استفاده زیادبودن , استفاده چی بودن , استفاده چی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | keinottelija (speculator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | profiteur, mercanti, faire des bénéfices exorbitants, faire de bénéfices excessifs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | profitmacher. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κερδοσκοπώ (speculate), ασυνείδητοσ κερδοσκόποσ, αισχροκερδώ, αισχροκερδήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"פקיע מחיר (overcharge), ל"פקיע את "שער (overcharge), לספסר (mediate, speculate, tout), רוחן, ספסר (blackmarketer, middleman, speculator, tout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyerészkedő (rigger, shark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pencatutan (black marketer, scalper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | profittatore, speculatore (gambler, plunger, speculator), speculare (gamble, specular, speculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 利権屋 (concession hunter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りけ"や (concession hunter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | vondeisheyder, ard-chosneyder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofiteerpray tirar lucros excessivos, explorar (discover, examine, exploit, explore, flay, have out, investigate, milk, pioneer, probe, prospect, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, research, scan, utilize, vamp), explorador (discoverer, exploiter, explorative, explorer, pioneer, scanner, scout, trail-blazer), especular (engross, specular, speculate), enriquecer ilicitamente, aproveitador (sucker). (various references) profitor (profiteering), speculant (adventurer, bear, extortioner, huckster, jobber, racketeer, speculator), face speculã (huckster). (various references) нажиться. (various references) profiter, biti profiter. (various references) sacar ganancias excesivas, estraperlista (blackmarketeer, spiv), aprovecharse (profit), agiotista (jobber, stockjobber), acaparador (hoarder, one who maintains excess stocks of a product for speculative purposes). (various references) ockrare (extortioner, note-shaver, usurer). (various references) vurgunculuk yapmak, vurguncu (adventurer, dodger, fly-by-night, jobber, looter, racketeer, spiv), voliyi vurmak, fırsatçılık yapmak, fırsatçı (opportunist, pusher, temporizer, temporizing, time server, timeserving), çıkarcı (calculating, expedient, interested, mercenary, number one, politic, self-seeker, self-seeking, sordid, utilitarian). (various references) спекулювати (gamble, speculate, venture), спекулянт (boomster, extortioner, speculator, spiv). (various references) kẻ trục lợi, kẻ đầu cơ trục lợi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "profiteer": profiteered, profiteering, profiteers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "profiteer": antiprofiteering. (additional references) | |
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"Profiteer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pregitzer, Profintern, profite, profiter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "profiteer" (pronounced prÄ'futi"r) |
| 4 | -u t i" r | budgeteer, marketeer, pamphleteer, Racketeer, summiteer. |
| 3 | -t i" r | austere, frontier, steer, volunteer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: portiere, profiter. | |
-2 letters: ferrite, firepot, piefort, pierrot, prefire, preriot, rotifer. | |
-3 letters: ferret, forrit, perter, porter, prefer, pretor, profit, protei, refire, report, retire, retore, rioter, ropier. | |
-4 letters: fetor, firer, forte, freer, frere, frier, frore, ofter, peter, prier, prior, refer, refit, repot, repro, retie, retro, rifer, riper, roper, topee, toper, trier, tripe, trope. | |
-5 letters: feet, fere, fete. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: profiteers. | |
+2 letters: imperforate, profiteered, profiterole, proliferate. | |
+3 letters: performative, profiteering, profiteroles, proliferated, proliferates. | |
+4 letters: performatives, professoriate, proliferative. | |
+5 letters: professoriates, sportfishermen. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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