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

• Is this not shocking profiteering?
  这不是吓死人的剥削吗？
• It is invidious profiteering those hospitals.
  那些医院简直就是惟利是图。
• The government is making a belated attempt to stop profiteering.
  政府正试图制止投机获利，但为时已晚。
• Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the potential profiteering may be part of the price for stabilising the financial system.
  众议院金融服务委员会主席巴尼弗兰克（barneyfrank）表示，潜在的牟取暴利行为，可能是为了稳定金融体系而必须付出的代价之一。
• 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。
• A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
  贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人。
• The central bank canceled the pre-sale housing proposals can end property profiteering?
  央行取消房屋预售建议能否终结房产暴利？
• 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。
• Then too, the values implicit in motherhood were bound to clash with the "male values" of competitiveness and devil-may-care profiteering.
  这样，母性中隐含的价值又必然与不顾一切地谋取暴利且具竞争性的“男性价值”起冲突。
• The pharmaceutical company has been charged with profiteering from the AIDS crisis.
  这家药物公司被指控从爱滋病危机中牟取暴利。