Exploitation Synonyms

ĕksploi-tāshən
The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. development
An act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. victimization
  2. victimisation
  3. using

Words Related to Exploitation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. commercialisation
  2. commodification
  3. commercialization
  4. redistribution
  5. exploit
  6. intensification

Exploitation Sentence Examples

  • It was an exploitation of the patented invention.

  • The exploitation of the mines led to a rapid development of the town during the next three years.

  • Railway development in West Virginia has been due largely to the exploitation of the coal and lumber resources of the state.

  • They were discovered before 1870 by searchers after petroleum, but their exploitation remained in the experimental stage until about 1900.

  • Up to this time the rule of the Bhonsla rajas, rough warriors of peasant extraction, had been on the whole beneficent; but, soured by his defeat, Raghoji now set to work to recover some of his losses by a ruthless exploitation of the peasantry, and until the effective intervention of the British in 1818 the country was subjected to every kind of oppression.

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