exploitive
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7.3
- adjective
- /ɪkˈsplɔɪtɪv/
:
explotador
- The exploitive nature of the scheme led to many workers losing their jobs unfairly.
- the most exploitive
vendors, people who were unprotected against exploitive labour practices.
- vendors, people who were unprotected against exploitive labour practices.
- And we weren't going to be slightly exploitive.
- Malignant narcissist that live inside this dark triangle are manipulative, exploitive, cold.
- So I, I'm sensitive to a lot of foods and yeah, I think people are very exploitive on the Internet.
Examples
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As a subjugated people, they fought the U.S. oppressors and their exploitive plans as heroically as they had the Spanish.
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But that doesn't make them any less exploitive.
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So I, I'm sensitive to a lot of foods and yeah, I think people are very exploitive on the Internet.
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I didn't care that it was exploitive.
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Do you feel unions have outlived their original purpose (to protect workers from exploitive employers)?
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Not long after Mario Kart 7 hit stores, players found some particularly exploitive shortcuts in a few tracks, something Nintendo needed to fix quickly to make online play fair again.
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Consequently, one can predict that "increased globalization of the markets for financial instruments will reduce the exploitive potential of all governments." (Niskanen 1994: 339).
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What remains is the sure sense that the carrying capacity of this planet cannot be sustained without measured reductions in human population growth and a lessening of the exploitive nature characterizing most development occurring after World War II.
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Protection from criminals in other neighborhoods, exploitive merchants, or developers seeking to remove or gentrify a neighborhood are all "services" documented by several recent studies of U.S. urban gangs.
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For over twenty years, he has been a leading authority on the psychological impact of violence, dealing with exploitive-type men or women and managing the dangers of high-stress careers and occupations.
Blog text (9)
Synonyms
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7.3
Trying to influence people to get personal advantage in an unfair way
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6.1
Trying to take advantage of people to get money or power
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6.8
Ready to use opportunities to gain, often without caring about right or wrong
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7.2
Treating people unfairly to make money or get an advantage
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9.3
Very greedy for money and willing to take things from others
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8.3
Asking people for money and help without giving anything back
To treat people unfairly to get money or other benefits
To try to control people in a clever but unfair way
A person or group that tries to take advantage of others to get money
Being someone who takes money or help from others without giving anything back
Antonyms
How Exploitative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exploitive comes from the word exploit, which originally meant to 'use' something for a benefit and is like the everyday word use. So exploitive describes taking unfair advantage of people or situations for personal gain.