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illegal profit

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meanings of illegaland profit


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illegal
adjective
uk /ɪˈliː.ɡəl/ us /ɪˈliː.ɡəl/
not allowed ...
See more at illegal
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 ...
See more at profit


Examples of illegal profit


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I suggest they should put in a fine based on three times the amount of illegalprofit made by the wrongdoer who has been prosecuted.
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This is reckoned to be a fair average and does not amount to an illegalprofit.
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Hansard archive

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That avoids shock movement in share prices, which provides the biggest opportunities for insider dealers to make a quick and illegalprofit.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
If he wins, he gets away with it; he has made his illegalprofit—for it is an illegalprofit.
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The criminal gangs, many of whom are linked to the paramilitary organisations, will exploit any opportunity for illegalprofit.
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Hansard archive

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When there is opportunity for serious crime and for the making of huge illegal profits, then criminals will always be found who will exploit it.
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Human life is expendable in the business of illegal profits.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Illegal drugs are one of the scourges afflicting our societies and also one of the most tempting sources of illegal profits.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I can say that this will, in the long term, help us to confiscate the assets of a number of individuals who have made illegal profits.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Our consultative paper suggested that a high proportion of used cars were being clocked and that large illegal profits were being made with only a limited risk of prosecution.
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Hansard archive

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A court may order wrongdoers to pay back illegal profits, with interest, to prevent unjust enrichment.
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Ndrangheta invests illegal profits in legal real estate and financial activities.
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By some estimates, underwriters may have earned $2 billion to $3 billion of illegal profits from yield burning since the late 1970s.
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In the 1960s scandals involved frauds such as huge illegal profits in the administration of banana import quotas, and preferential allocation of purposely misprinted (and, therefore, rare) postage stamps.
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