profiteering
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- action
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- facet of
- business ethics
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- encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/profiteering
- different from
- price gouging
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- Overview
- Types of profiteering
- Laws
- See also
- Example cases
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Profiteering is a pejorative term for the act of making a profit by methods considered unethical.
==Overview== Business owners may be accused of profiteering when they raise prices during an emergency (especially a war). The term is also applied to businesses that play on political corruption to obtain government contracts.
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