war profiteering
Battlefield financial opportunism
War profiteering is making excessive profits from wartime conditions—typically by selling arms, supplies, or services to governments or militaries at inflated prices, or by exploiting scarcities that war creates.
The term carries strong disapproval, implying that someone benefits financially from others' suffering: Defense contractors were accused of war profiteering.
- black marketIllicit trading system
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
- blood moneyPayment tied to death
- dirty moneyIllegally obtained wealth
- ill-gotten gainsWealth obtained dishonestly
blood diamonds · conflict minerals · smuggling · military-industrial complex · price gouging · corruption · Krupp · public outrage · human rights violations · whistleblowing · colonial exploitation · carpetbagger · war crimes · investigative journalism · arms dealers · Halliburton · accountability · transparency
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- war economicswar funding, war effort, mobilization, defense contracts, munitions
- war economieswar economy, war bonds, war debt, military spending, defense contracts
- wartime economywar bonds, war loans, war production, war effort, war factories
- conflictclash, fight, war, battle, dispute
war profiteeringself-sacrifice
Surrendering for others' benefit
wartime service · military service · volunteerism · enlisting · civic duty
war profiteeringpacifism
Antiwar moral stance
war resistance · conscientious objection · peace activism · draft resistance · nonviolent resistance
war profiteeringhumanitarian aid
Crisis relief for sufferers
war relief · charitable giving · refugee assistance · disaster relief · victory gardens