Profiteering is a pejorative term for the act of making a profit by methods considered unethical. 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.

Some types of profiteering are illegal, such as price fixing syndicates and other anti-competitive behaviour, for example on fuel subsidies, or restricted by industry codes of conduct such as aggressive marketing of products in the third world such as baby milk.

See also

• Business ethics
• War profiteering
• Price gouging
• McDojo - Profiteering in the Martial arts

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