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Definition of Exploitive
1. Adjective. Tending to exploit or make use of.
Similar to: Consumptive
Derivative terms: Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit
Definition of Exploitive
1. Adjective. Exploitative: taking advantage of someone ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exploitive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exploitive
Literary usage of Exploitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1918)
"Interest on perishable capital goods is less obviously exploitive than rent on
land, because the former must be renewed out of interest. ..."
2. The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States by Charles Richard Van Hise (1918)
"According to Galloway, at least three fourths of these men are at the present
time practicing exploitive farming, ie are taking from the land more than they ..."
3. Philosophy, Humanity and Ecology: Vol. 1: Philosophy of Nature edited by J. Odera Oruka (1996)
"It is exploitive, under this conception, to make another species worse off by
exercising proprietary control over them; however, to inflict the same harm on ..."
4. The Historical Geography of Detroit by Almon Ernest Parkins (1918)
"What tillage was done was mainly exploitive. Where conditions were favorable,
agriculture later came to dominate, and it in turn, after many decades, ..."
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