Exploitation Definition

ĕksploi-tāshən
noun
An exploiting or being exploited (in various senses)
Webster's New World
The act of employing to the greatest possible advantage.
Exploitation of copper deposits.
American Heritage
Utilization of another person or group for selfish purposes.
Exploitation of unwary consumers.
American Heritage
An advertising or publicity program.
American Heritage

The act of exploiting or utilizing.

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Noun

Singular:
exploitation
Plural:
exploitations

Origin of Exploitation

Exploitation Sentence Examples

  • It was an exploitation of the patented invention.

  • The exploitation of the mines led to a rapid development of the town during the next three years.

  • Railway development in West Virginia has been due largely to the exploitation of the coal and lumber resources of the state.

  • They were discovered before 1870 by searchers after petroleum, but their exploitation remained in the experimental stage until about 1900.

  • Up to this time the rule of the Bhonsla rajas, rough warriors of peasant extraction, had been on the whole beneficent; but, soured by his defeat, Raghoji now set to work to recover some of his losses by a ruthless exploitation of the peasantry, and until the effective intervention of the British in 1818 the country was subjected to every kind of oppression.

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