n. 25B6; verb a shopkeeper was charged with profiteering : OVERCHARGE, racketeer; cheat someone, fleece someone; informal rip someone off, rob someone.
25B6; noun he was a war profiteer : RACKETEER, exploiter, black marketeer; informal bloodsucker.
PROFITEER
Meaning of PROFITEER in English
Concise Oxford thesaurus English vocabulary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка тезаурус. 2012