exploitative
- adjective
- /ɪkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/
- The documentary exposed the exploitative practices of the fashion industry.
- exploitative relationship
- exploitative situation
- exploitative conditions
So when confronted with violent or exploitative content, what's a global platform to do?
- So when confronted with violent or exploitative content, what's a global platform to do?
- So not all narcissistic people are cunning and exploitative, like at a high level of exploitation.
- It is controlling, it is manipulative and it is exploitative.
- Do I think that the makers of this series are heartless, exploitative, You know, take no prisoners, TV guys?
- She's now a campaigner against porn industry because she says it's just so, it's so exploitative.
- So doing something that is blatantly exploitative of human weaknesses will work against their long term advantage.
- And there is a huge amount of, I think ignorance stereotype in the West that these places are exploitative and we use very big words like serfdom and slavery.
- So game theory optimal versus exploitative.
- And often the things that are most accessible to all, you know, bodies are the things that are, you know, in some ways sort of exploitative or look down on another ways.
Examples
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Some prisons continue to engage in and be criticized for exploitative practices.
Academic text (2017) -
But this, this is dangerous and exploitative.
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This is a system, an exploitative system.
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I believe now it was led by him but it felt exploitative the way the club posted that.
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All food production is exploitative.
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My gut reaction was that this is wrong and exploitative and not what my husband would have wanted.
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Bonded labor is considered the most exploitative situation for children.
Academic text (2001) -
Business is portrayed as greedy and selfish and exploitative and fundamentally not good.
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Nevertheless, what is being recalled is a brutal, oppressive, and exploitative form of human existence.
Academic text (1990) -
It is UN-American, it's exploitative, and it speaks of the darkest spots in the national soul.
Synonyms
Trying to take advantage of people to get money or power
Using people or situations unfairly to get personal benefit
Focusing on quick profit from a country's resources that benefits rich people
To take ideas and symbols from another culture without asking or showing respect
To treat people unfairly to get money or other benefits
Antonyms
How Exploitative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exploitative comes from the verb exploit, which means 'to use' something or someone for gain. So calling a person or practice exploitative says they unfairly 'use' others to get an advantage.