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exorbitant profit

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meanings of exorbitantand profit


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exorbitant
adjective
uk /ɪɡˈzɔː.bɪ.tənt/ us /eɡˈzːɔr.bə.t̬ənt/
Exorbitant prices, demands, etc. are much ...
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profit
noun
uk /ˈprɒf.ɪt/ us /ˈprɑː.fɪt/
money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods ...
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Examples of exorbitant profit


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The landlord was making an exorbitantprofit, and somebody was not doing very well out of it.
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Is he further aware that every six months the balance sheets show an exorbitantprofit?
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One of two things will happen; either the new boats will catch herring and make an exorbitantprofit, or the steam drifters will go out of use.
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They can make an exorbitantprofit provided that they can get possession, and they go into all sorts of detailed investigations and quibbles to try to do so.
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The rules changed the power relationships between networks and television producers, who often had to agree to exorbitantprofit participation in order to have their shows aired.
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He would say that there are exorbitant profits made by the distributors.
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Far from showing that the chairman and other non-executive directors knew of or budgeted for exorbitant profits, it conclusively proves the reverse.
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Is it not possible to see that the contractors do not get such high prices as to enable them to make exorbitant profits?
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If people manufacture something that is in short supply, they can make exorbitant profits and no one has any right to question it.
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I will not say that there are exorbitant profits being made by anybody.
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These employers have made exorbitant profits on the basis of speculative building with the use of lump labour.
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The clause prevents exorbitant profits on top of getting the money back.
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Again, is there any explanation for it other than the exorbitant profits which are being made in distribution?
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It would delete the reference to the finding that the exorbitant profits had been known to the company "at all levels of management".
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They have not been making exorbitant profits, and they have not been creating any serious conditions from the point of view of finance.
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Will he consider the arguments in favour of bringing into public ownership private industries whose financial performance is based upon exorbitant profits?
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It would seem that the exorbitant profits made in the casino that is the international finance market have no impact on inflation.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There is, therefore, little opportunity for individuals to make any exorbitant profits out of site values.
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Perhaps he can tell us whether these exorbitant profits are going to the shipowners who carry the goods.
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What is happening now is that the trade is getting exorbitant profits for the beer above the low gravity of 1034.
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