profiteer

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I feel like a war-time profiteer.
我觉得自己就像一个战时的奸商。
Nature is a short-term Darwinian profiteer.
自然是追求短期达尔文主义利益的投机商。
Mr Sanader told the court that he denied “the charge of being a war profiteer with repugnance.
萨纳德告诉法庭他否认“被指控是一名令人厌恶的战时投机商。

Mammon is the profiteer. Mammon is the goldsmith's son who wants to invest his talents with labor and with hard work in order to showa profit.
贪神是一位逐利者，他是一名金匠的儿子，想要,用自己的才智，劳动与汗水投资换取利润。
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Nefarious profiteer European bankers had forced all these loans on an unsuspecting populace.
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To convert the businessman into a profiteer is to strike a blow at capitalism, because it destroys the psychological equilibrium which permits the perpetuance of unequal rewards.
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a person who takes advantage of a situation in which other people are suffering to make a profit, often by selling goods that are difficult to get at a high price

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.