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exploitative Definition

ex·ploita·tive (ek splo̵itə tiv, ik-)

adjective

  1. exploiting
  2. of exploitation
Also exploitive ex·ploi′·tive (-splo̵itiv)
exploitative Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • people: I think it is so exploitative of people 's religion, it really is ' .

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: Such highly exploitative employment practices for the sake of cost-cutting should have no place in the NHS.
  • not: Better pay must go hand in hand with new working practices, providing they are not exploitative.
  • sexually: Some groups may be sexually exploitative or use drugs or wine irresponsibly.
  • potentially: Children using the net can be exposed to commercial organizations in a potentially exploitative situation.
  • crudely: Jobs created, for example, can be crudely exploitative.
  • notoriously: Working conditions in the tourism industry are notoriously exploitative.

Modifies a noun

  • labor: They are traumatized by their experience and the role their family may have played in selling them into exploitative labor.
  • transaction: We might also justify interfering with exploitative transactions on strategic grounds.
  • employer: So what is the best way to deal with exploitative employers?
  • nature: Every time a punch lands you wonder how much damage is being done to the brain, plus the exploitative nature of it.
  • relationship: Capital is an exploitative social relationship with the alienation of the direct producer from the product of their labor at its very core.
  • relation: Africa bleeds because of exploitative trade relations with the West.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: The story is rich with surprises, which never feels exploitative.
  • consider: Using a post graduate trainee counselor to manage deficits in service provision may be considered exploitative.
  • become: Thus there is always the temptation and possibility for the therapeutic relationship to become exploitative.

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