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Перевод: profiteering

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спекуляция ; барышничество
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Тезаурус:

1. Mr Simon Hinde, Consumers Association spokesman, predicted: "There is potential for profiteering.
2. A splendid, concise article in your Apr 26 Business section alerted me to the underhand profiteering of at least one of the high street banks at its farmer customers' expense before the scandal broke in the national press and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses.
3. Whether in its truest sense - the sale of state-owned assets - or the conversion of ownership from an institution's members to a new breed of shareholders, privatisation has made profiteering a respectable way of life.
4. Profiteering was morally unacceptable to most Everton shareholders; this was even true of business men like Hartley, the jam-maker, and Hudson, The soap-manufacturer.
5. The allegations of personal profiteering by Mr Hussein and his family arose from a Kuwaiti-commissioned investigation into Iraq's assets by Kroll Associates, a New York firm of financial gumshoes.
6. As part of the same struggle against destitution, meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women (SE 27 February 15).
7. This confirms many readers' views and, since woodworkers keep tool and machinery suppliers in business, it seems to me that somebody on the supply side should justify what appears to be gross profiteering.
8. He denies there is any profiteering.
9. Merchants who bought food in surplus areas for sale in drought districts were shot for profiteering.
10. To us, profiteering exacerbates famine; to ninth-century people it caused it, in the sense that God punished all immoralities of a society.
11. Real fans, they say, need protecting; profiteering must be stopped.
12. Greenpeace says that this gap "will almost certainly have to be met by further "waste profiteering" from other countries - a practice which guarantees profits for incineration companies and subsidises the incineration of UK-originated waste".
13. There were odd cases of profiteering such as the rental and catering concession held by Mears at Chelsea, but these were the exceptions that proved the rule.