The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically
disapproval Profiteering involves making large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get. a wave of profiteering and corruption. the process of making unfairly large profits, especially by selling things that are very difficult to get at very high prices
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 composed largely of war profiteers and gangsters