exploitative
Speech parts
1. exploitative - Adjective
2. exploitative - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
tending to exploit or make use of
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Phrases with the word
Examples
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.
That James could not accept automatically that these athletes were the greedy spawn of an exploitative system is the positive proof of his own liberation and oppression through sports. He was ennobled and crippled by cricket; he reached beyond his boundary but would always have a blind spot.
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.