exploited

Speech parts

1. exploited - Adjective

2. exploited - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

developed or used to greatest advantage

(of persons) taken advantage of

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

used using employed utilized exploit harness oppressed tapped downtrodden victimized monetary ill-used exercised operated misused
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Antonyms

undeveloped jobless minimized out of work untapped workless
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Phrases with the word

exploited state has not been exploited

Examples

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. Erica Jong

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. Fidel Castro

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. Frank Lloyd Wright

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. John Steinbeck

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. Smedley Butler

You may as well die fighting the enemy than live exploited and be persecuted by him. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

exploitatively exploitativeness exploitatory exploited state exploitee exploiter