exploitation
/ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.84 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or result of forcibly depriving someone of something to which they have a right.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A genre of media focused on lurid depictions of topical social issues such as violence, sexuality and marginalized groups.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "the exploitation of natural resources"
- "Whereas in the middle ages the idea of acquiring wealth was limited by a body of moral rules imposed under the sanction of religious authority, after 1500 those rules, and the institutions, habits, and ideas to which they had given birth, were no longer deemed adequate. They were felt as constraint. There were evaded, criticized, abandoned, because it was felt that they interfered with the exploitation of the means of production."
- "the exploitation of children in beauty pageants"
- ""The second function is for seers who have used magic, but do not know about the second function. This criteria selects the informed while preventing premeditated exploitation of this function.""
- "Undocumented migrants are vulnerable to exploitation."
- "The abolition of exploitation meant, in his view, not that workers should receive the equivalent of what they produced, but that the surplus value they do not receive in wages should accrue to society in the form of fresh investments, emergency reserves, payment for necessary 'unproductive' services, administration, etc., plus provision for those unable to work."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: exploitation, explicō