Exploitative Meaning
/ɪkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjIn the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something
adjOf or relating to exploitation.
Sentence Examples
Addiction is not a personal failing but an aspect of an exploitative system.
Exploitative companies are avoided by the workforce.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The landlord's ____ policies forced tenants to pay excessively high rents.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The workers went on strike to protest against the ____ conditions in the clothing factory.
Word Origin & History
From exploit + -ative. Compare exploitive.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The landlord's ____ policies forced tenants to pay excessively high rents.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The workers went on strike to protest against the ____ conditions in the clothing factory.