profiteer

1. N-COUNT 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. 奸商; 投機(jī)商[usu pl] [表不滿]

...a new social class composed largely of war profiteers and gangsters. ...主要由戰(zhàn)爭投機(jī)商和強(qiáng)盜組成的一個新的社會階層。