Exploitive
/ɪkˈsplɔɪtɪv/ adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Exploitative: taking advantage of someone
"The University of Phoenix, a for-profit educational institution, has turned the traditional relationship between athletics and higher education on its head, reducing it to its commercially exploitive essence."
Adjective
- 1 tending to exploit or make use of wordnet
Example
More examples"The University of Phoenix, a for-profit educational institution, has turned the traditional relationship between athletics and higher education on its head, reducing it to its commercially exploitive essence."
Etymology
From exploit + -ive.