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Exploitive   /ɪksplˈɔɪtɪv/  /ɛksplˈɔɪtɪv/   Listen
Exploitive

adjective
1.
Tending to exploit or make use of.  Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory.






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"Exploitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... Southern Italy are in despair at the scarcity of laborers to work their lands at starvation wages, and that the railway builders and mine operators of America are equally anxious to have those selfsame South Italian laborers for their own exploitive enterprises, we have told a bare half of the tale. There remain all those cultural, educational, political, religious and domestic variations and adjustments which make up the general problem of assimilability of the alien and of the strength of our own ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various

... wants it, but as a rule most of us are not clearly conscious that we need, for the sake of our expansive existence, to be industrially efficient. We are not even conscious that industry is the great field for adventure and growth, because we use that field not for the creative but for the exploitive purpose. ...
— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot



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