How do you use Profiteering in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Profiteering in a sentence
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Profiteering meaning
The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically or opportunistically.
Using Profiteering
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically or opportunistically.
- In the example corpus, profiteering often appears in combinations such as: profiteering and, of profiteering, and profiteering.
Context around Profiteering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Profiteering
- In this selection, "profiteering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, energy, war, champion, practice, denunciations and leaving stand out and add context to how "profiteering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about energy profiteering in the and accusations of profiteering. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "profiteering" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with profiteering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Or energy deregulation, and the resulting profiteering. (7 words)
There’s not profiteering going on in any way, shape or form. (12 words)
These allegations paint a grim picture of profiteering amid a humanitarian catastrophe. (12 words)
Petitioner noted that penalizing profiteering without sufficiently defining what constitutes it violates one’s right to due process and the accused’s right to be informed of the nature and cause of an accusation against him. (36 words)
Yet some residents argue the district would open the door to water profiteering, claiming the plan would connect local supplies to California water markets, and allow the state to demand transfers during drought emergencies. (34 words)
Campaigners are continuing to raise concerns about energy profiteering in the wake of the latest announcement of record profits and there have been calls for a tax on share buybacks. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
A Competition and Markets Authority investigation later found no evidence of profiteering, but the regulator told retailers to make pricing clearer.
But while the trade department can charge those who set prices higher than the SRP with profiteering, it’s hardly enforced.
Campaigners are continuing to raise concerns about energy profiteering in the wake of the latest announcement of record profits and there have been calls for a tax on share buybacks.
Experts are now demanding an end to the 'profiteering' practice, urging sites to stop cashing in on vulnerable Brits longing for a baby.
Here too, Biden’s “war profiteering” denunciations were disappeared, as he recently demanded an additional $45 billion for the never restrained military-industrial complex.
Job security, he said, was threatened by the fourth Industrial Revolution which sought to champion profiteering at the expense of employment creation.
Or energy deregulation, and the resulting profiteering.
Oxfam called for a systemic and wide-ranging increase in taxation of the super-rich to claw back crisis gains driven by public money and profiteering.
Petitioner noted that penalizing profiteering without sufficiently defining what constitutes it violates one’s right to due process and the accused’s right to be informed of the nature and cause of an accusation against him.
The economy is underdeveloped and owned by foreign conglomerates who are busy asset-stripping and profiteering, leaving nothing for the people who live here.
There’s not profiteering going on in any way, shape or form.
Yet some residents argue the district would open the door to water profiteering, claiming the plan would connect local supplies to California water markets, and allow the state to demand transfers during drought emergencies.
Yet the Reserve Bank has been adamant that corporate profiteering was not an inflationary trigger.
All of these players — both Big Pharma and government — showed us that our African lives are worthless to them compared to the profiteering being offered by maintaining health injustice.
But others fear that water markets open the door to profiteering and hoarding, leaving poorer communities in the dust.
Critics say that such abuses are driven in part by a lack of checks, organized crime and ruthless profiteering.
Despite some individuals being impressed by their money-making knack, others branded it as "sad" and implied that it's profiteering on others.
He said on GMB: "It's the concept of charging people for Christmas dinner round your own house - it's profiteering.
These allegations paint a grim picture of profiteering amid a humanitarian catastrophe.
The takeaway lunch chain is reducing the price of six bestselling items following accusations of profiteering.
Common combinations with profiteering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- profiteering and 8×
- of profiteering 7×
- and profiteering 4×
- the profiteering 4×
- corporate profiteering 3×
- to profiteering 3×
- profiteering from 3×
- profiteering it 2×
- profiteering in 2×
- it's profiteering 2×