Exploitation
noun
The act of using someone or something unfairly for your own advantage.
The unfair exploitation of cheap labor in developing countries is a serious issue.
Often appears as...
- worker exploitation
- sexual exploitation
noun
The process of making use of and benefiting from resources.
The exploitation of coal reserves is a primary source of revenue for many countries.
Often appears as...
- exploitation of natural resources
- oil exploitation
noun
The act of making full use of and deriving benefit from an advantage.
His ruthless exploitation of the student's naivety was unacceptable.
Often appears as...
- political exploitation
- exploitation of weakness
noun
Type of movie or book that is low in quality and often controversial.
His new book falls into the genre of exploitation novels.
Often appears as...
- exploitation cinema
- exploitation film
Usage tips
Informal
Modern
noun
The act of using someone or something unfairly for your own advantage.
The unfair exploitation of cheap labor in developing countries is a serious issue.
Often appears as...
- worker exploitation
- sexual exploitation
noun
The process of making use of and benefiting from resources.
The exploitation of coal reserves is a primary source of revenue for many countries.
Often appears as...
- exploitation of natural resources
- oil exploitation
noun
The act of making full use of and deriving benefit from an advantage.
His ruthless exploitation of the student's naivety was unacceptable.
Often appears as...
- political exploitation
- exploitation of weakness
noun
Type of movie or book that is low in quality and often controversial.
His new book falls into the genre of exploitation novels.
Often appears as...
- exploitation cinema
- exploitation film
Usage tips
Informal
Modern
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Implies harm or ethical wrongdoing when benefiting from someone or something.
Many activists fight against worker exploitation globally.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Usually involves an imbalance of power, where the exploiter has more control.
Children are vulnerable to exploitation due to their lack of power.
Pro Tip 3/3Ethical Issues
Exploitation often raises questions about fairness and rights.
Exploitation of interns through unpaid work raises ethical concerns.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Implies harm or ethical wrongdoing when benefiting from someone or something.
Many activists fight against worker exploitation globally.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Usually involves an imbalance of power, where the exploiter has more control.
Children are vulnerable to exploitation due to their lack of power.
Pro Tip 3/3Ethical Issues
Exploitation often raises questions about fairness and rights.
Exploitation of interns through unpaid work raises ethical concerns.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Implies harm or ethical wrongdoing when benefiting from someone or something.
Many activists fight against worker exploitation globally.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Usually involves an imbalance of power, where the exploiter has more control.
Children are vulnerable to exploitation due to their lack of power.
Pro Tip 3/3Ethical Issues
Exploitation often raises questions about fairness and rights.
Exploitation of interns through unpaid work raises ethical concerns.
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Rick Guidotti: From...
And they made it very clear to me about their fears of exploitation, that every time there was a magazine article that came out about a kid with albinism, it was a story about a victim. It was sad, or it was exploitative, or sensational — never positive, always negative. And I said, "Okay, well then, what do we do here?"
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Diving 1000m Below The...
waters are dwindling we now know that certain areas of the deep sea may be targeted for certain types of exploitation so we can begin to think about what might be endangered but there are very few animals in deep sea that we can categorically say are endangered one
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Can we create the...
in the future, how can we feed every member of a growing population a healthy diet? Meeting this goal will require nothing short of a second agricultural revolution. The first agricultural revolution was characterized by expansion and exploitation,
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Breaking boundaries,...
understanding that education was the way out of a life of exploitation and danger so that when an won a scholarship to the best school the best private school in the region at the age of 11 she understood the opportunity she'd been afforded at the
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The Blind Spots of the...
And that it comes on top of layers of pictures that are not particularly encouraging. Our modern economies have advanced and grown for two centuries through the gigantic blind spot of fossil fuel exploitation and its unintended consequences.
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What does it mean to be...
and is often related to war and violence. Today, roughly half the world's refugees are children, some of them unaccompanied by an adult, a situation that makes them especially vulnerable to child labor or sexual exploitation.
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The new American Dream PIPE...
plain and simple. And all of us need policies that protect us from exploitation by employers and financial institutions. Nothing that follows is meant to suggest that the gap between rich and poor
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Why "biofabrication" is...
It's one that moves away from the exploitation of nonrenewable resources to working with the original, renewable life. Instead of designing out life, we're designing with it and for it.
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Let’s Help Refugees...
and they risk exploitation and abuse, and leave them unskilled and uneducated, and delay by years the return to peace and prosperity in their countries.
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Is Eating Venomous Sea...
we are in Vietnam and we are witnessing one of the largest marine reptile exploitation in the world
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Rick Guidotti: From...
And they made it very clear to me about their fears of exploitation, that every time there was a magazine article that came out about a kid with albinism, it was a story about a victim. It was sad, or it was exploitative, or sensational — never positive, always negative. And I said, "Okay, well then, what do we do here?"
Video examples
Diving 1000m Below The...
waters are dwindling we now know that certain areas of the deep sea may be targeted for certain types of exploitation so we can begin to think about what might be endangered but there are very few animals in deep sea that we can categorically say are endangered one
Video examples
Can we create the...
in the future, how can we feed every member of a growing population a healthy diet? Meeting this goal will require nothing short of a second agricultural revolution. The first agricultural revolution was characterized by expansion and exploitation,
Video examples
Breaking boundaries,...
understanding that education was the way out of a life of exploitation and danger so that when an won a scholarship to the best school the best private school in the region at the age of 11 she understood the opportunity she'd been afforded at the
Video examples
The Blind Spots of the...
And that it comes on top of layers of pictures that are not particularly encouraging. Our modern economies have advanced and grown for two centuries through the gigantic blind spot of fossil fuel exploitation and its unintended consequences.
Video examples
What does it mean to be...
and is often related to war and violence. Today, roughly half the world's refugees are children, some of them unaccompanied by an adult, a situation that makes them especially vulnerable to child labor or sexual exploitation.
Video examples
The new American Dream PIPE...
plain and simple. And all of us need policies that protect us from exploitation by employers and financial institutions. Nothing that follows is meant to suggest that the gap between rich and poor
Video examples
Why "biofabrication" is...
It's one that moves away from the exploitation of nonrenewable resources to working with the original, renewable life. Instead of designing out life, we're designing with it and for it.
Video examples
Let’s Help Refugees...
and they risk exploitation and abuse, and leave them unskilled and uneducated, and delay by years the return to peace and prosperity in their countries.
Video examples
Is Eating Venomous Sea...
we are in Vietnam and we are witnessing one of the largest marine reptile exploitation in the world
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Henning Mankell
Swedish Writer
The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.
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Lydia Millet
American Novelist
Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
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Hope Jahren
American Scientist
As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.
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James T. Walsh
American Politician
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
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Kailash Satyarthi
Indian Activist
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
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Paul Theroux
American Novelist
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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Norman Finkelstein
American Educator
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
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Rohini Nilekani
Indian Writer
As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.
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Henning Mankell
Swedish Writer
The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.
Quote examples
Lydia Millet
American Novelist
Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.
Quote examples
Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.
Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
Quote examples
Hope Jahren
American Scientist
As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.
Quote examples
James T. Walsh
American Politician
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
Quote examples
Kailash Satyarthi
Indian Activist
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
Quote examples
Paul Theroux
American Novelist
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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Norman Finkelstein
American Educator
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
Quote examples
Rohini Nilekani
Indian Writer
As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.
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