different between profiteer vs exploiter

English

Etymology

From profit +? -eer.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

profiteer (plural profiteers)

1. (derogatory) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.

Hypernyms

• profiter

Related terms

• profiteering
• profit monger

Translations

Verb

profiteer (third-person singular simple present profiteers, present participle profiteering, simple past and past participle profiteered)

1. To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t?(?)

Etymology 1

exploit +? -er

Noun

exploiter (plural exploiters)

1. One who exploits.

Translations

Etymology 2

Irregular adoption of French exploiter.

Verb

exploiter (third-person singular simple present exploiters, present participle exploitering, simple past and past participle exploitered)

1. to make use of.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 296:

     Not only must she receive unheard-of personal favours [...], but she must immediately write about them and exploiter them professionally.

French

Etymology

From modification of Old French esploiter, esploitier (based on Latin ex-), from earlier espleitier, inherited from Vulgar Latin *explicit?re, a frequentative form of Latin explic?re, explic?. Doublet of expliciter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.splwa.te/

Verb

exploiter

1. (transitive) to exploit

Conjugation

Related terms

• exploit
• exploité
• exploiteur

Further reading

• “exploiter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).