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profitmonger

profitmonger is the alternative form of profit monger.

Meaning of profit monger

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 profitmonger

pluralprofitmongers

Origin of profitmonger

From profit + monger.

Questions about profitmonger

What is profitmonger the alternative form of?
Profitmonger is the alternative form of profit monger.

Words near profitmonger in the dictionary

  1. profitings
  2. profitless
  3. profitlessly
  4. profitlessness
  5. profitmaking
  6. profitmonger
  7. profitmongering
  8. profitmongers
  9. profits
  10. profits a prendre
  11. profits warning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: profitmonger (page history and authors); profit monger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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