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geeksploitation

geeksploitation noun: the practice of taking advantage of highly-motivated programmers willing to work long hours.

Noun

geeksploitation (uncountable)

  1. The practice of taking advantage of highly-motivated programmers willing to work long hours.
    • Finding a new job just meant driving to another office-park campus with dopey street names (Disc Drive, Resistor Road, Infinite Loop) to endure more geeksploitation in exchange for dead presidents, stock options, a flexible schedule, no dress code, and all the junk food I could eat.2000, Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 149

Origin of geeksploitation

From geek + -sploitation.

Questions about geeksploitation

What does geeksploitation mean?
Geeksploitation means the practice of taking advantage of highly-motivated programmers willing to work long hours.
What part of speech is geeksploitation?
Geeksploitation is a noun.

Words near geeksploitation in the dictionary

  1. geeks
  2. geeks out
  3. geeks someone's head up
  4. geeksome
  5. geekspeak
  6. geeksploitation
  7. geeksta
  8. geekstas
  9. geekster
  10. geeksters
  11. geeksville

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