war profiteer

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• War profiteering — A war profiteer is any person or organization that improperly profits from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war. The term has strong negative connotations. General profiteering may also occur in peace time.TypesBlack… …   Wikipedia

• profiteer — n. a war profiteer * * * [ˌprɒfɪ tɪə] a war profiteer …   Combinatory dictionary

• profiteer — prof‧i‧teer [ˌprɒfˈtɪə ǁ ˌprɑːfˈtɪr] noun [countable] disapproving FINANCE a person or organization that makes unfairly large profits, for example by selling things that are hard to get at very high prices: • A handful of profiteers are using… …   Financial and business terms

• profiteer — 1797 as a verb, but dormant until revived in World War I; 1912 as a noun. From PROFIT (Cf. profit) + EER (Cf. eer). Related: Profiteering …   Etymology dictionary

• profiteer — [[t]prɒ̱fɪtɪ͟ə(r)[/t]] profiteers N COUNT: usu pl (disapproval) If you describe someone as a profiteer, you are critical of them because they make large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get. ...a new social class… …   English dictionary

• profiteer — A person who makes excessive profits by charging inflated prices for a commodity that is in short supply, especially during a war or national disaster …   Big dictionary of business and management

• Prelude for War — infobox Book | name = Prelude for War also The Saint and the Sinners also The Saint Plays with Fire title orig = translator = image caption = 1967 paperback edition with alternate title author = Leslie Charteris cover artist = country = United… …   Wikipedia

• Moral Equivalent of War speech (Carter) — President Jimmy Carter s Moral Equivalent of War Speech was a speech in which United States President Jimmy Carter addressed the United States on April 17, 1977. It is notable because he compared the energy crisis with the moral equivalent of war …   Wikipedia

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• Milo Minderbinder — First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller s most successful novel, Catch 22. As the mess officer of Yossarian s squadron, Minderbinder is a war profiteer during World War II, perhaps the best known of all… …   Wikipedia

• Pursuit of Nazi collaborators — The pursuit of Nazi collaborators refers to the post WWII pursuit and apprehension of individuals who were not citizens of the Third Reich at the outbreak of World War II and collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war. Hence, this article… …   Wikipedia