profiteers是什么意思？

profiteers

• n. 投机，牟求暴利( profiteer的名词复数 )；

例句

• While millions were fighting and dying, the profiteers were lining their pockets. 数百万人在打仗捐躯, 而奸商们却趁机发不义之财.
• Foreign profiteers accelerated the exchange between China and foreign countries. 洋倒爷也促进了中外的交流.
• The profiteers cheated people right and left. 奸商净坑人.
• ...a new social class composed largely of war profiteers and gangsters. 主要由战争投机商和强盗组成的新的社会阶层

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  奸商；投机商；牟取暴利的人
  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.
  例句
  ...a new social class composed largely of war profiteers and gangsters. 主要由战争投机商和强盗组成的新的社会阶层