exploitative
/ɛkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.85 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something
adj
Of or relating to exploitation.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "This competition may be intra- or interspecific and may take the form of exploitative or interference competition. In exploitative competition, the consumption of a prey item by one individual removes it from possible consumption by another."
- "In this model, because competition among consumers is merely exploitative, the consumer species do not directly influence each other's fitness. […] only through their effect on resource abundance, y."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɛkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/
Inflected Forms
more exploitative (comparative)
most exploitative (superlative)