profiteers
Crisis price raisers
Profiteers are people who make excessive profits, especially by exploiting shortages or emergencies.
The term carries strong disapproval—profiteers take advantage of desperate circumstances: War profiteers sold defective equipment to the army.
To profiteer is to engage in such exploitation: Landlords profiteered during the housing crisis.
Illegal coordinated rate-setting
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
- corneringForcing into position
- monopolizingTaking exclusive control
- gougingExploitative overpricing
flipping · arbitrage · manipulation · bid rigging · insider trading · collusion · racketeering · front running
Illicit trading system
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- shortagesInsufficient quantities available
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
contraband · smuggling · inflation · war economy · occupation · embargo · sanctions · collaboration
Excessive pricing during crises
- gougerOne who overcharges unfairly
- extortionistOne who demands payment through threats
- racketeerOrganized crime participant
- swindlerPerson who deceives for money
usurer · loan shark · monopolist · hoarder · scalper · speculator · middleman · black marketeer
Excessive desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
gluttony · insatiability · voracity · moneygrubbing · grasping · plundering · pillaging · ill-gotten gains
price fixing
Illegal coordinated rate-setting
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
- corneringForcing into position
- monopolizingTaking exclusive control
gouging · flipping · arbitrage · manipulation · bid rigging · insider trading · collusion · racketeering · front running · pump and dump
black market
Illicit trading system
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- shortagesInsufficient quantities available
hoarding · contraband · smuggling · inflation · war economy · occupation · embargo · sanctions · collaboration · looting
price gouging
Excessive pricing during crises
- gougerOne who overcharges unfairly
- extortionistOne who demands payment through threats
- racketeerOrganized crime participant
swindler · usurer · loan shark · monopolist · hoarder · scalper · speculator · middleman · black marketeer · smuggler
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
greed · gluttony · insatiability · voracity · moneygrubbing · grasping · plundering · pillaging · ill-gotten gains · blood money
- commercetrade, banking, merchant, imports, sales
- deceiversliar, liars, deceiver, fraud, fake
- eliteselites, plutocrats, oligarchs, aristocrats, blue bloods
- predatorspredators, hunters, lions, falcon, fox
- seekersseekers, seeker, treasure hunters, searcher, fortune seekers
- black marketblack market, illegal trade, smugglers, contraband, traffickers
profiteersphilanthropists
Generous supporters of good causes
benefactors · altruists · humanitarians · do-gooders · Good Samaritans
profiteersgivers
Those who donate
donors · patrons · sponsors · benefactors · subsidizers
- war profiteersThose enriched by military conflicts
- war profiteeringExploiting conflict for gain