2VERB 使(企业)发财;使(利润)增长;为…牟利 If you say that someone is fattening something such as a business or its profits, you mean that they are increasing the value of the business or its profits, in a way that you disapprove of. 使(企业)发财;使(利润)增长;为…牟利 [business, disapproval] [Also VERB n PREPOSITION]
They have kept the price of sugar artificially high and so fattened the company's profits. [VERB noun]
他们一直人为地使糖的价格居高不下,以此为公司牟利。
Fatten up means the same as fatten .fatten up 同 fatten
The Government is making the taxpayer pay to fatten up a public sector business for private sale.