exploitation

Syllables: ex·ploi·ta·tion/ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn̩/

exploitation noun: the act of utilizing something; industry.

Noun

exploitation (countable and uncountable, plural exploitations)

The act of utilizing something; industry.
- 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...1936, Harold Laski, “The Rise of European Liberalism”, in Collected Works of Harold Laski, London: Routledge, published 1997, page 20
The improper use of something for selfish purposes.
- 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."2018 January 22, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Jan 22, 2018
The act or result of forcibly depriving someone of something to which they have a right.
- 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'...1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
The marketing and promotion of a film.
- This territory continued to be the greatest field for the exploitation and distribution of our films non-theatrically, […]1928, Canada. Dept. of Trade and Commerce, Annual Report
- The difference is that obtaining increased financial input during the production phase of the film reduces the risk during the exploitation phase.2017, Finola Kerrigan, Film Marketing
A genre of media focused on lurid depictions of topical social issues such as violence, sexuality and marginalized groups.
- […]certainly it is not an adventure story, either, as McKernan seems to suggest, an exploitation novel aiming to attract readers through the use of "the odd," "the perverse," or "the exotic."2013 June 29, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Passion for Place Book II: Between the Vital Spacing and the Creative Horizons of Fulfilment, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN
- It is here that we arrive at the main question of this paper: can an exploitation director be an auteur?2016 September 23, Pawel Aleksandrowicz, The Cinematography of Roger Corman: Exploitation Filmmaker or Auteur?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 21

exploitation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

exploitation in Hindi

act of exploiting: शोषण śoṣaṇ

exploitation in Tamil

சுரண்டல், தன்னலப் படுத்தல், தன்னலப் பயன்படுத்தல்

exploitation in Marathi

exploitation, taking advantage: शोषण śoṣaṇ

exploitation in Urdu

ناجائز فائدہ

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exploitation in Bengali: শোষণ, অনুচিত সুযোগ গ্রহণ
exploitation in Malayalam: ചൂഷണം cūṣaṇaṁ
exploitation in Kannada: ಶೋಷಣೆ, ಶೋಷಣೆಯ
exploitation in Punjabi: ਸ਼ੋਸ਼ਣ
exploitation in Gujarati: શોષણ
exploitation in Odia: ଶୋଷଣ
exploitation in Nepali: शोषण, दोहन
exploitation in Tagalog: panghuhuthot
exploitation in Arabic: اِسْتِغْلَال istiḡlāl
exploitation in Persian: انتفاع entefâ', بهرهبرداری bahre-bardâri, استثمار estesmâr

Examples of exploitation in a sentence

Ghana's monopsonistic cocoa industry continues to be damaged by price exploitation.
The economy will boom off the exploitation of offshore oil.
Runaways are vulnerable to criminal exploitation.

All 40 example sentences with exploitation

Forms of exploitation

plural	exploitations

Plural of exploitation: exploitations

Origin of exploitation

Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”). By surface analysis, exploit + -ation.

Words formed from exploitation

Phrases with exploitation

exploitation films

Words that rhyme with exploitation

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Questions about exploitation

What does exploitation mean?: Exploitation means the act of utilizing something; industry.
What is exploitation in Hindi?: Exploitation in Hindi is शोषण (śoṣaṇ). See Exploitation meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is exploitation?: Exploitation is a noun.
How do you pronounce exploitation?: Exploitation is pronounced /ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn̩/.
What is the plural of exploitation?: The plural of exploitation is exploitations.

Words near exploitation in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: exploitation (page history and authors); exploitation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); शोषण (Marathi) (page history and authors); exploitation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exploitation (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exploitation (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); exploitation (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); exploitation (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); exploitation (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); exploitation (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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