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profit monger

profit monger noun: a person, business, or profession marked by avarice and greed.

Noun

profit monger (plural profit mongers)

  1. A person, business, or profession marked by avarice and greed.
    • Lawyers are considered to be profit mongers when the law is treated as a trade secret and the public process as a business owned and operated by the legal profession.

Forms of profit monger

pluralprofit mongers

Origin of profit monger

From profit + monger.

Questions about profit monger

What does profit monger mean?
Profit monger means a person, business, or profession marked by avarice and greed.
What part of speech is profit monger?
Profit monger is a noun.
What is the plural of profit monger?
The plural of profit monger is profit mongers.

Words near profit monger in the dictionary

  1. profit centres
  2. profit crop
  3. profit crops
  4. profit margin
  5. profit margins
  6. profit monger
  7. profit mongers
  8. profit motive
  9. profit motives
  10. profit share
  11. profit shares

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