exploitationaladj.
/ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌɛkˌsplɔɪˈteɪʃənəl/ Characterized by exploitation; spec. unfairly or unethically exploitative.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > exploiting
exploitive1858
exploiting1876
exploitative1891
exploitational1908
1908 L. H. Bailey On Training to teach Agric. 27 In their agricultural work, they are yet too prone to emphasize the extraordinary, the semisensational, and the wonderful, evidencing the fact that we are now in the exploitational stage of our agricultural education evolution.
1949 Phylon 10 39 Work on a consistently commercial and exploitational level has changed their way of moving and thinking to such an extent that they can no longer function as true artists.
1970 Arctic Anthropol. 7 60/2 The Aleutians provide a verifiable situation for identifying homologies over time with a high expectation of correspondence in tool use, marine resources, and exploitational and non-exploitational activities.
1991 Times 25 May (Saturday Review) 15/3 His fiction has little in common with exploitational works..in which the author has a complicity with the carnage that is described.
2011 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 10 Sept. g1 Films about 9/11 run the risk of being exploitational because they deal with such an epic tragedy and they don't have a resolution.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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