exploitation
The act of utilizing something; industry.
Other meanings
The improper use of something for selfish purposes.
“the exploitation of children in beauty pageants”
The act or result of forcibly depriving someone of something to which they have a right.
“Undocumented migrants are vulnerable to exploitation.”
Synonyms
- development
Related words
- blaxploitation
- exploitative
- sexploitation
- unexploitation
- antiexploitation
- counterexploitation
- exploitational
- exploitationer
- exploitation film
- nonexploitation
- overexploitation
- superexploitation
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "explicō" (unfold, deploy).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “exploitation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.