exploitation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
noun an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)

Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”). By surface analysis, exploit + -ation.

The task of exploitation has been an immense one. — An African Adventure, Isaac Frederick Marcosson
The Saint-Simonians would then agree with Sismondi in calling this exploitation. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide
Our way of life demands strife, exploitation, restless change, discontent and destruction. — The Problem of China, Bertrand Russell

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