extractive

[ik-strak-tiv]

adjective

1. tending or serving to extract, or based upon extraction.

   coal, oil, copper, and other extractive industries.

2. capable of being extracted, as from the earth.

   extractive fuels.

3. of, relating to, or involving extraction.

   extractive surgery.

4. of or of the nature of an extract.

noun

1. something extracted.

Other Word Forms

• nonextractive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of extractive¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; extract + -ive

Example Sentences

On his Pluralistic blog, Doctorow coined the term enshittification as a succinct explanation as to why more Americans and global citizens were embracing the “techlash”: Corporations in Silicon Valley were making their products more extractive, juicing more revenue and rigging the game in their favor, because they’d eliminated all viable competitors.

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"The West dropped the ball – that's the reality. And China was in for the long run – it saw the benefit and was willing to invest in it," says Jacques Eksteen, chair for extractive metallurgy at Curtin University.

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"There is the issue of climate change, that it doesn't rain anymore, but the main impact has been caused by extractive mining," he says.

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Their fear-based leadership mirrors the behavior of real-world extractive villains like bankers foreclosing on homes and billionaires profiting off crises, whereas the goonies embody a fundamentally different ethic of trust, creativity and abundance.

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I don’t see a way out for Alice Coltrane other than through the extractive and back into the quiet.

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