🐟 Not hunting animals 🤝 Not exploiting others

nonpredatory

5.3

Not trying to harm or unfairly take advantage of others

adjective
/nɒnˈprɛdətɔri/

: no depredador

They decided on a nonpredatory business model that focused on mutual benefit rather than exploitation.
nonpredatory price discrimination
nonpredatory price

Examples

These competition laws can provide a means for combating anticompetitive predatory pricing without generating the risk under antidumping law of condemning nonpredatory, healthy price competition.

Academic text (1991)
Second, nonpredatory discrimination may enhance allocative efficiency by inducing firms to produce a level of output that is closer to the competitive level.

Academic text (1991)
Excluded in the long run by nonpredatory pricing unless they are relatively inefficient.

Academic text (1991)
Put another way, a U.S. producer can be affected by nonpredatory price discrimination under domestic U.S. law without any recourse (assuming no protection under the RPA), but will have an antidumping remedy against a Canadian producer selling below the latter's home market value.

Academic text (1991)
The company's nonpredatory practices ensured fair competition in the market.
Her nonpredatory approach in negotiations helped build trust among all parties involved.

Synonyms

nonaggressive

vsnonpredatory

1 4.2

Calm and gentle, not likely to attack or fight

focuses on avoiding taking unfair advantage rather than only avoiding attack

nonabusive

vsnonpredatory

5.1

Without hurtful words or actions toward other people

focuses on intent not to exploit or take unfair advantage

noncoercive

vsnonpredatory

6.8

Not involving force, threats, or pressure to make someone do something

focuses on avoiding unfair advantage rather than just avoiding pressure

nonhostile

vsnonpredatory

4.3

Calm and not threatening to others

places greater emphasis on avoiding exploitation than merely being peaceful

nonoffensive

vsnonpredatory

3.5

Does not attack or harm and serves only to defend

focuses on avoiding unfair advantage rather than only avoiding offense

unintimidating

vsnonpredatory

4.1

A person or thing that people can approach without feeling scared

focuses on avoiding taking unfair advantage rather than only being easy to approach

Antonyms

predatory

43 6.1

Trying to take advantage of people to get money or power

How Exploitative

predatory

43 6.1

exploitative

17 7.2

opportunistic

28 6.8

nonpredatory

5.3

unexploitable

7.1

fair

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

nonpredatory positive

Morphology

nonpredatory = predatory (semi-transparent) = non + predator + y

Formation is a straightforward negation of 'predatory', but the sense here is metaphorical ('exploitative' rather than literal hunting), so derivation may not be fully obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Nonpredatory is made from non- meaning 'not' and predator meaning someone who 'hunts' or takes 'prey'. So a nonpredatory business or lender does not 'hunt' or take unfair advantage of people.