Definition of Overexploit

1. Verb. Exploit excessively. "We should not overexploit our natural resources"

Generic synonyms: Exploit, Tap
Derivative terms: Overexploitation

Definition of Overexploit

1. Verb. to exploit excessively ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overexploit

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexploit

overexertions
overexerts
overexpand
overexpanded
overexpanding
overexpands
overexpansion
overexpansions
overexpectation
overexplain
overexplained
overexplaining
overexplains
overexplanatory
overexplicit
overexploit (current term)
overexploitation
overexploited
overexploiting
overexploits
overexpose
overexposed
overexposes
overexposing
overexposure
overexposures
overexpress
overexpressed
overexpresses
overexpressing

Literary usage of Overexploit

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

1. Handbook of Market Creation for Biodiversity: Issues in Implementation by OECD Staff (2004)
"Where there are multiple users with unrestricted access to the resource, they will compete away the value of the resource and overexploit it in the process. ..."

2. Salvaging Nature: Indigenous Peoples, Protected Areas and Biodiversity by Marcus Colchester (1998)
"... may upset these negative feedback cycles and cause Indian communities to overexploit their locale (Colchester, 1981; see also figures 1 and 2). ..."

3. Challenges to the 2020 Vision for Latin America: Food and Agriculture Since 1970 by James L. Garrett (1997)
"... the poor have little choice but to continue to overexploit and degrade their environment as they eke out a living (Gallopin, Winograd, and Gomez 1991). ..."

4. A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern by Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, Jack L. Davis (2005)
"This led short-term tax-farmers to overexploit the tax sources and practice extortion. They made every attempt to increase their margin of profit (20-50 ..."

5. Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative Directions and Methods by Fikret Berkes (2001)
"... fishers will overexploit stocks; 2) those stocks are extremely unpredictable; and 3) to avoid disaster, managers must have effective hegemony over them ..."

6. Research for Development in the Dry Arab Region: The Cactus Flower by Shadi Hamadeh, Mona Haidar, Rami Zurayk (2006)
"They face severely limited opportunities and are forced either to overexploit the natural resource base or to migrate to already overcrowded urban centres ..."

7. People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural by Guy Bessette (2006)
"... government officials influence the way in which they fish through the exercise of their power; offenders overexploit the resources with no long- term ..."

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