Exploitation
[eksplɒɪ'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɛksplɔɪ'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly); 'capitalistic exploitation of the working class'; 'paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization'.
(noun.) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; 'the development of Alaskan resources'; 'the exploitation of copper deposits'.
Editor: Noreen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of exploiting or utilizing.
Inputed by Doris
Examples
- Now active exploitation was required. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Huge possibilities have remained undeveloped because of the opposition of owners, forestallers, and speculators to their economical exploitation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He wanted wider opportunities for the exploitation of Syria, north Africa, and so forth by Parisian financial groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The fact was they had done their work so well they must now disperse to show the world what it was, and assist in its industrial exploitation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ruthless exploitation of India becomes the civilizing fulfilment of the white man's burden; not infrequently the missionary, drummer, and prospector are embodied in one man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- During this year, 1878, the phonograph made its way also to Europe, and various sums of money were paid there to secure the rights to its manufacture and exploitation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When the possibilities of the graphophone became known, capital was quickly supplied for its commercial exploitation, and the Columbia Phonograph Company was organized. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is not enough to see to it that education is not actively used as an instrument to make easier the exploitation of one class by another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He did not see that the new science was for a long time to be worked in the interest of old ends of human exploitation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From the first Edison has declared that it was not his intention to benefit pecuniarily through the exploitation of this project. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of its primary impulses was to protect property against the greed and waste of kings and the exploitation of noble adventurers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It will be readily understood that Edison did not sit with folded hands or drop into complacent satisfaction the moment he had reached the practical stage of commercial exploitation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- During this period of arrested development, Edison was continuously working on the invention and commercial exploitation of the incandescent lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Edited by Clifford