exploiting

[ ik-sploi-ting ]

/ ɪkˈsplɔɪ tɪŋ /

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noun

the act of utilizing something, especially for profit: More resources should be allocated to the exploiting of the local market by attracting more business to the region.

the act of using a person or thing selfishly for one’s own ends: When I saw the commercial, I was appalled at the exploiting of children's sorrow for corporate gain.

adjective

using a person or thing selfishly or for profit: In late czarist Russia, activists began to galvanize workers and peasants against the exploiting landowners, industrialists, and state.

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Origin of exploiting

exploit² + -ing¹ for the noun senses; exploit² + -ing² for the adjective sense

OTHER WORDS FROM exploiting

self-ex·ploit·ing, adjective

How to use exploiting in a sentence

We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
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For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
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I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.
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Those who come to the Dinner Party are self-selecting; they do want to talk about it.
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
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At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
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But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
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Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.
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