Overexploitation

Synonyms for "overexploitation" (3 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

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Translations

13 translations across 9 languages.

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Finnish

2 entries
  • liikakäyttö noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)
  • riistokäyttö noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

French

1 entries
  • surexploitation noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

German

1 entries
  • Raubbau noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • túlzott kihasználás noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

Irish

3 entries
  • dubhídiú noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)
  • dúshaothrú noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)
  • róshaothrú noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

Italian

1 entries
  • sovrasfruttamento noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

Polish

1 entries
  • nadużycie noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

Spanish

1 entries
  • sobreexplotación noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • надмірне використання noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)
  • перевикористання noun (excessive and damaging exploitation)

Sample sentences

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More than 50% of Americans – 164 million people – live in coastal counties, with 1.2 million added each year. Humans have heavily altered the coastal environment through development, changes in land use, and overexploitation of resources. Now, the changing climate is imposing additional stresses.

Source: tatoeba (3651115)

Despite having the fourth largest fresh water reserves in the world, officials say more than 400 Chinese cities, including the capital, face severe water shortages. Experts say the shortages are a result of droughts, overexploitation of water resources, increasing pollution, inefficient delivery methods and temperature increases.

Source: tatoeba (12201713)

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