EXPLOITATION meaning: Unfair use of resources or people

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word exploitation:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

exploitation: Merriam-Webster
exploitation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
exploitation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
exploitation: Collins English Dictionary
exploitation: Vocabulary.com
Exploitation, exploitation: Wordnik
exploitation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
exploitation: Wiktionary
exploitation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
exploitation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
exploitation: Infoplease Dictionary
Exploitation, exploitation: Dictionary.com
exploitation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Exploitation (Marxism), Exploitation (film), Exploitation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Exploitation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
exploitation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
exploitation: Rhymezone
Exploitation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
exploitation: FreeDictionary.org
exploitation: Mnemonic Dictionary
exploitation: TheFreeDictionary.com
exploitation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

exploitation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

exploitation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

exploitation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Political (No longer online)
exploitation: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

exploitation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The act of utilizing something; industry.
▸ noun:  The improper use of something for selfish purposes.
▸ noun:  The act or result of forcibly depriving someone of something to which they have a natural right.
▸ noun:  The marketing and promotion of a film.

Opposite:

empowerment, support, fairness, respect, nurturing

Types:

child labor, forced labor, human trafficking, slavery, debt bondage, more...

Phrases:

economic exploitation, exploitation films, exploitation film, imagery exploitation, exploitation in developing nations, more...

Adjectives:

economic, sexual, commercial, capitalist, colonial, over, ruthless, full, further, intensive, foreign

Colors:

black, red, gray, dark green, brown, more...

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