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exploitative

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12 lettersPronunciation /ɪkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeeiilopttvxStarts with EEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. tending to exploit or make use of

Word origin

From exploit + -ative. Compare exploitive.

Used in a sentence

  • We are protesting the company's exploitative policies.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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