Definition of Exploitive

1. Adjective. Tending to exploit or make use of.

Exact synonyms: Exploitative, Exploitatory
Similar to: Consumptive
Derivative terms: Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit, Exploit

Definition of Exploitive

1. Adjective. Exploitative: taking advantage of someone ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exploitive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exploitive

exploitationer
exploitationers
exploitations
exploitative
exploitatively
exploitativeness
exploitatory
exploited
exploitee
exploitees
exploiter
exploitered
exploitering
exploiters
exploiting
exploitive
exploits
exploiture
exploitures
explorable
exploration
explorational
explorations
explorative
exploratively
exploratorily
exploratoriness
exploratorium
exploratoriums
exploratory

Literary usage of Exploitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1918)
"Interest on perishable capital goods is less obviously exploitive than rent on land, because the former must be renewed out of interest. ..."

2. The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States by Charles Richard Van Hise (1918)
"According to Galloway, at least three fourths of these men are at the present time practicing exploitive farming, ie are taking from the land more than they ..."

3. Philosophy, Humanity and Ecology: Vol. 1: Philosophy of Nature edited by J. Odera Oruka (1996)
"It is exploitive, under this conception, to make another species worse off by exercising proprietary control over them; however, to inflict the same harm on ..."

4. The Historical Geography of Detroit by Almon Ernest Parkins (1918)
"What tillage was done was mainly exploitive. Where conditions were favorable, agriculture later came to dominate, and it in turn, after many decades, ..."

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