exploitative

CEFRC1

/ɪkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/

adjective

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Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.
In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something

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We are protesting the company's exploitative policies.
This competition may be intra- or interspecific and may take the form of exploitative or interference competition. In exploitative competition, the consumption of a prey item by one individual removes it from possible consumption by another.
Carey McWilliams offers an exploitative theory to explain anti-Semitism.¹⁸ Social exclusion of Jews, he points out, commenced in the 1870’s just when huge fortunes were being made in industry and in railroading.

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Carey McWilliams offers an exploitative theory to explain anti-Semitism.¹⁸ Social exclusion of Jews, he points out, commenced in the 1870’s just when huge fortunes were being made in industry and in railroading.
1954, Gordon Willard Allport, The Nature of Prejudice, Basic Books, published 1979, →ISBN, page 233
The ways in which tadpoles inhibit each other’s growth have been of particular interest since Richards (1958) and Rose (1960) first indicated that interference as well as exploitative mechanisms may be involved.
1996, Trevor John Clark Beebee, Ecology and Conservation of Amphibians, Chapman & Hall, published 1997, →ISBN, page 111
In this model, because competition among consumers is merely exploitative, the consumer species do not directly influence each other's fitness. […] only through their effect on resource abundance, y.
2005, Thomas L. Vincent, Joel Steven Brown, Evolutionary Game Theory, Natural Selection, and Darwinian Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 98

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From exploit + -ative. Compare exploitive.