Definition of Exploitative

1. Adjective. Tending to exploit or make use of.

Exact synonyms: Exploitatory, Exploitive
Similar to: Consumptive
Derivative terms: Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit

Definition of Exploitative

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

2. Adjective. (context: more generally) Of or relating to exploitation. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: ecology of competition) Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exploitative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exploitative

exploding
exploding cucumber
exploding cucumbers
explodingly
explodium
exploit
exploitability
exploitable
exploitate
exploitation
exploitation film
exploitation films
exploitationer
exploitationers
exploitations
exploitative (current term)
exploitatively
exploitativeness
exploitatory
exploited
exploitee
exploitees
exploiter
exploitered
exploitering
exploiters
exploiting
exploitive
exploits
exploiture

Literary usage of Exploitative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Trade and Core Labour Standards by OECD Staff, Organization For Economic Cooperat OECD (2000)
"The contribution of development co-operation programmes in eradicating exploitative forms of child labour This sub-section updates the contribution of ..."

2. Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" by Smita Narula, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"... more exploitative. An estimated forty million people in India, among them fifteen million children, are bonded laborers. A majority of them are Dalits. ..."

3. The Land and Property Rights of Women and Orphans in the Context of HIV and ...by Kaori Izumi, Global Coalition on Women and AIDS by Kaori Izumi, Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (2007)
"... 3.2 Discriminatory and exploitative tendencies against HIV-positive women Discrimination and stigmatisation were evident in the Bulawayo and Seke sites ..."

4. ... The History of the 33rd Division, A.E.F., by Frederick Louis Huidekoper by Frederic Louis Huidekoper (1921)
"As the barrage lifted the advance was started, and the troops advanced to the first exploitative objective, which was the North edge of the ..."

5. Illinois in the World War by Illinois State Historical Library (1921)
"As the barrage lifted the advance was started, and the troops advanced to the first exploitative objective, which was the North edge of the ..."

6. ... The History of the 33rd Division, A.E.F., by Frederick Louis Huidekoper by Frederic Louis Huidekoper (1921)
"... and the troops advanced to the first exploitative objective, ... lifted the advance was continued [by patrols] to the second exploitative objective. ..."

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