1. profiteering - Noun
2. profiteering - Verb
profiteering (usually uncountable, plural profiteerings)
The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically or opportunistically.
war profiteering
profiteering
present participle of profiteer
The pharmaceutical industry must be told in no uncertain terms that the medicines that they manufacture for this crisis will be sold at cost. This is not the time for profiteering or price gouging. Bernie Sanders
Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering. Shaffi Mather
The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry. Marcia Angell
In any case, legal tools must be created so that all these activities or enterprises that are directed against the national health in a physical or intellectual way may be suppressed. The same is true of the exploitation of the distress of the population through profiteering and usury. Gottfried Feder
Also, some amount of profiteering will take place as far as essential goods are concerned. Source: Internet
All other charges against Mubarak, including profiteering and economic fraud, were dismissed. Source: Internet