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Definition of Overexploit
1. Verb. Exploit excessively. "We should not overexploit our natural resources"
Definition of Overexploit
1. Verb. to exploit excessively ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overexploit
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexploit
Literary usage of Overexploit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Market Creation for Biodiversity: Issues in Implementation by OECD Staff (2004)
"Where there are multiple users with unrestricted access to the resource, they
will compete away the value of the resource and overexploit it in the process. ..."
2. Salvaging Nature: Indigenous Peoples, Protected Areas and Biodiversity by Marcus Colchester (1998)
"... may upset these negative feedback cycles and cause Indian communities to
overexploit their locale (Colchester, 1981; see also figures 1 and 2). ..."
3. Challenges to the 2020 Vision for Latin America: Food and Agriculture Since 1970 by James L. Garrett (1997)
"... the poor have little choice but to continue to overexploit and degrade their
environment as they eke out a living (Gallopin, Winograd, and Gomez 1991). ..."
4. A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern by Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, Jack L. Davis (2005)
"This led short-term tax-farmers to overexploit the tax sources and practice
extortion. They made every attempt to increase their margin of profit (20-50 ..."
5. Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative Directions and Methods by Fikret Berkes (2001)
"... fishers will overexploit stocks; 2) those stocks are extremely unpredictable;
and 3) to avoid disaster, managers must have effective hegemony over them ..."
6. Research for Development in the Dry Arab Region: The Cactus Flower by Shadi Hamadeh, Mona Haidar, Rami Zurayk (2006)
"They face severely limited opportunities and are forced either to overexploit
the natural resource base or to migrate to already overcrowded urban centres ..."
7. People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural by Guy Bessette (2006)
"... government officials influence the way in which they fish through the exercise
of their power; offenders overexploit the resources with no long- term ..."
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