exploitation
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5.9
- noun
- /ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃən/
:
explotación
- Jeffrey helped open my eyes to the issue of child labor exploitation around the world.
- sexual exploitation
- labor exploitation
- child exploitation
For some people, yes, propped up by theft and exploitation of marginalized people.
- For some people, yes, propped up by theft and exploitation of marginalized people.
- Looking back, I would say that is is sexual exploitation in one format or another.
- So sexual exploitation of children, right?
- This really is inhumane exploitation that very sadly it is not new.
- They all do involve, we might also say, exploitation or subordination in certain ways.
- All this often runs the risk of exploitation, whether you're writing about migration or not.
- So things like cheating, dishonesty, exploitation, people experience moral disgust towards those things.
- We, we target online human trafficking and sex sexual exploitation.
- It has this idea of exploitation, of being mean, of being nasty, of being bad.
- Well good news for me so far, zero Child Exploitation still far that anybody knows about.
- The CI as Human Resources Exploitation Training manual has this to say.
- But big problem US is the number one consumer of sex exploitation type videos.
- It's all exploitation and it meant that she was the face of that.
Examples
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During the forty-three-year rule of the Somoza family, destructive exploitation of the environment accelerated.
Academic text (1990) -
Activists are fighting against the exploitation of children who are forced into labor.
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I want you to think about the history of exploitation of man by man.
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We will consider the exploitation of those rights and the impact of change on them.
Academic text (1999) -
I wanted to talk about a life shaped by exploitation.
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Some laws designed to protect women and children from sexual exploitation already exist, but enforcement has been lacking.
Academic text (2008) -
Sand emphasized that the state of Israel was founded through the exploitation of its original residents in 1948.
Academic text (2015) -
A living wage, health care, and worker protections against exploitation are crucial.
Academic text (2008) -
But soon there were reports of rapacious economic exploitation of the natives and of the land.
Academic text (1990) -
Isn't this really nothing more than exploitation of these contestants for money, for ratings?
Synonyms
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4.0
Hurting or being unfair to people and animals
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6.8
Treating someone unfairly, often by taking advantage of them
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8.4
Unfair treatment of someone, often by cheating them
Using people or things for your own benefit without giving anything back
Antonyms
How Unfair
- NSFW
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6.3
120
5.5
79
5.9
- NSFW
344
3.7
22
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember exploitation is to think of the root exploit, which meant 'to use' or 'take advantage of'. So when people are treated unfairly for someone else's gain, that is exploitation.