profiteers

英 [ˌprɒfɪˈtɪəz]

美 [ˌprɑfəˈtɪrz]

n.  奸商; 投机商; 牟取暴利的人
profiteer的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 奸商；投机商；牟取暴利的人
  If you describe someone as aprofiteer, you are critical of them because they make large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get.
  1. ...a new social class composed largely of war profiteers and gangsters.
     主要由战争投机商和强盗组成的新的社会阶层

双语例句

• In European literature, Jews are usually characterized as usurers and profiteers who are avaricious, mean, cunning and full of anxiety.
  在欧洲文学作品中，犹太人一般以贪婪、守财、狡黠、多虑的高利贷者、投机奸商等形象出现，且处于陪衬基督徒形象的从属地位。
• Profiteers cashed in during the gasoline shortage.
  投机商人利用石油短缺大捞一笔。
• After a huge financial crisis and a long list of scandals, banks are now viewed as incompetent profiteers run by spivs.
  在一场严重的金融危机和一系列丑闻之后，如今银行被视为由骗子经营的不称职的投机商。
• Small farms were increasingly replaced by large estates owned by rich generals and profiteers and worked by slaves.
  小农场越来越被富有的将军们、投机商暴发户们拥有的大块地产所代替，并由奴隶们工作。
• Will give them the money and technology just to keep the War profiteers gong.
  给他们资金和技术以使战争奸商发财吗？
• While millions were fighting and dying, the profiteers were lining their pockets.
  数百万人在打仗捐躯，而奸商们却趁机发不义之财。
• The profiteers cheated people right and left.
  奸商净坑人。
• Unlike law enforcement agencies, however, piracy profiteers play by no rules, and arrests and convictions are few and far between.
  然而，靠仿冒牟利的人可不像执法机关那样按牌理出牌，被捕判罪者少之又少。
• Profiteers cashed in during the gasoline shortage. Hong Kong Association of Petroleum Product Dealers Limited
  投机商人利用石油短缺大捞一笔香港石油产品代理商会有限公司
• The many loopholes that have enabled profiteers to make money from the Clean Development Mechanism, without materially affecting emissions, are examples.
  例如，为奸商们留下空子可钻，使他们通过“清洁发展机制”捞到好处，而没有从本质上影响到排放量。