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Exploitative

//ɪkˈsplɔɪtətɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something

    "We are protesting the company's exploitative policies."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to exploitation. broadly

    "Carey McWilliams offers an exploitative theory to explain anti-Semitism.¹⁸ Social exclusion of Jews, he points out, commenced in the 1870’s just when huge fortunes were being made in industry and in railroading."

  3. 3
    Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.

    "The ways in which tadpoles inhibit each other’s growth have been of particular interest since Richards (1958) and Rose (1960) first indicated that interference as well as exploitative mechanisms may be involved."

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to exploit or make use of wordnet

Etymology

From exploit + -ative. Compare exploitive.

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