extractivism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Extractivism, a term born of anti-colonial struggle and thought in the Americas, is a mode of accumulation based on hyper-extraction with lopsided benefits and costs: concentrated mass-scale removal of resources primarily for export, with benefits largely accumulating far from the sites of extraction."
- "Industrial extractivism (a definition that Vidal would extend to include modern intensive agriculture) has contributed to the recent freefall in bird, mammal and amphibian numbers."