someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods
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
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