exploitive

Speech parts

1. exploitive - Adjective

2. exploitive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

tending to exploit or make use of

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Examples

American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally. Andrew Weil

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive. Curtis Sittenfeld

The power of the market, which is the fulcrum of traditional attitudes, depends on the validity of this assumption. It is a far, far better thing to admit to monopoly profits, even at exploitive levels, than to concede that the market is impotent. John Kenneth Galbraith

As cooperation became general the non-provocable strategies were exploited and eventually eliminated, whereupon the exploitive (non-cooperating) strategies were out-performed by the cooperative strategies. Source: Internet

In fact, he does almost, but not before noting that the British Victorians themselves got a bad rap as exploitive colonialists. Source: Internet

“That view of the company being monopolizing and exploitive and cruel and generally evil in some ways, that’s not inaccurate but it’s not the whole story.” Source: Internet

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