profiteer

Converse of object

• stop: Let's get organized to stop the private profiteers getting their hands on our post.

Preposition: at

• expense: Given a chance many will profiteer at the expense of others, exploiting them for a quick dollar.
• cost: Eddy Weatherill of IBAS, said: " This is just blatant profiteering at any cost.

Adjective modifier

• private: Let's get organized to stop the private profiteers getting their hands on our post.
• corporate: Corporate war profiteers and their military masters are building new nuclear weapons facilities at Britain's nuclear bomb factory.
• big: Many of the biggest profiteers are in the ' private security ' - read ' mercenary ' - business.
• other: The other main profiteer from these rights is Big Pharma.
• multinational: Tell that to the Jaguar workers in Coventry who are being thrown on the scrapheap by multinational profiteer Ford.
• global: Without control of these global profiteers, all the gains of the last century in equality and social support will destroyed.

Preposition: on

• back: Critics accused the big banks of profiteering on the back of a tide of debt which is set to hit £ 1trillion this year.

Modifying Another Word

• clearly: Daniel Rothschild says, " Lenders are clearly profiteering at the expense of their borrowers.

Noun used with modifier

• asylum: Asylum Profiteers ' The Angel Group ' sponsor Celebrating Sanctuary in Brum Make Borders History!
• war: The protest will march past a couple of war profiteers in the city.

Used with why or when

• when: They gave no support to get it back and profiteered when we returned at great expense to the festival.

Preposition: from

• war: This insensitive declaration to profiteer from a War which is still killing people deserves a mention on Kirkby Times.
• sale: BACK TO LIST How does Habitat for Humanity prevent profiteering from the sale of houses?

Preposition: by

• company: All the while profiteering by private companies involved in the ERI project continues unabated.
• lender: We think the charge is a form of profiteering by the lenders and should be abolished.
• bank: Profiteering by banks on credit card insurance, according to the ' Guardian ' of April 4 th 2005.