exploitation
use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
selfish utilization: He got ahead through the exploitation of his friends.
the combined, often varied, use of public-relations and advertising techniques to promote a person, movie, product, etc.
Origin of exploitation
1Other words from exploitation
- ex·ploi·ta·tion·al, adjective
- ex·ploi·ta·tion·al·ly, adverb
- non·ex·ploi·ta·tion, noun
- o·ver·ex·ploi·ta·tion, noun
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How to use exploitation in a sentence
exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism | Louise I. Shelley | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd far from being secondary partners, Scots featured disproportionately in overseas imperial exploitation.
Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality | Noah Caldwell | September 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is rootless and stateless, having little in the way of rights or protection from exploitation.
Syrian women and girls are facing increased danger from sexual exploitation in the very refugee camps where they sought safety.
They were equally amazed to learn that Ed Piskor was white, but not a word was said about cultural exploitation or appropriation.
Bam! Pow! Bling! Hip-Hop's History Gets the Graphic Novel Treatment | Daniel Genis | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
For, of course, as capital heaped up and its control became concentrated, the ratio of exploitation increased.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairThe opinion was offered that they represented the exploitation of some new brand of whisky which would announce itself later.
Average Jones | Samuel Hopkins AdamsYet on the medical profession rests the responsibility for the exploitation of this nostrum.
Evidently this method of exploitation pays; that it does pay is a disgrace to the medical profession.
It should not be difficult for the physician to fix the status of iridium under this sort of exploitation.
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