exploited
- adjective
- /ɪkˈsplɔɪtɪd/
- The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has outlined protective guidelines for parents and children in its pamphlet, Child Safety on the Information Superhighway.
- Exploited Children
Examples
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There is always, always an invisible sort of supply chain of usually exploited labor hiding behind it.
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But really being willing to work for free and to be totally exploited as a resource.
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And it's the same way way here, you know, Arabs were exploited, all that, all that.
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He has personal experience being exploited by not Jews, capitalists.
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Virgin Australia's policy to prevent men from sitting next to the unaccompanied minors has supporters, including John Shehan of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the United States.
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Many workers feel that they are being exploited by their employers without fair compensation.
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The documentary revealed how the factory's employees were exploited and forced to work long hours for little pay.
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In developing countries, children are often exploited for cheap labor in dangerous conditions.
Synonyms
Other people make someone do more than is fair
Treated badly by other people
A person whom others take advantage of and do not respect
Treated unfairly and made to suffer by other people
Treated cruelly or unfairly by other people
Treated cruelly or violently, often more than once
Antonyms
How Exploited
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exploited also took on a negative sense of 'using' a person for your own gain, so an exploited person is someone who has been taken advantage of unfairly.