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
The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically
(Osmanlı Dönemi) Ist: İnsanların veya ehlî hayvanların yiyeceklerine âit şeylerin satış kıymetleri yükselsin diye kırk gün kadar saklamak. Böyle yapan kimseye muhtekir denir