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Exploitation
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- 1 The act of utilizing something; industry. countable, uncountable
"Whereas in the middle ages the idea of acquiring wealth was limited by a body of moral rules imposed under the sanction of religious authority, after 1500 those rules, and the institutions, habits, and ideas to which they had given birth, were no longer deemed adequate. They were felt as constraint. There were evaded, criticized, abandoned, because it was felt that they interfered with the exploitation of the means of production."
- 2 an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) wordnet
- 3 The improper use of something for selfish purposes. countable, uncountable
"the exploitation of children in beauty pageants"
- 4 the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful wordnet
- 5 The act or result of forcibly depriving someone of something to which they have a right. countable, uncountable
"Undocumented migrants are vulnerable to exploitation."
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- 6 The marketing and promotion of a film. countable, uncountable
"This territory continued to be the greatest field for the exploitation and distribution of our films non-theatrically, […]"
Etymology
Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”).
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