exploitativeadj.

1879 Salt Lake Daily Tribune 14 Nov. 3/2 The chief work is that of mining, an exploitative industry that, when successful, requires more costly machinery and other articles than any other of the great mineral enterprises of our times.

1937 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 19 67 A pioneer, exploitative economy where untouched lands were to be opened up and worked, wherein virgin forests and mines and wells were to be explored and exploited.

1950 N. Chukwuemeka Afr. Dependencies x. 136 Industries in Nigeria fall into two distinct classes... By far the most widely encouraged is the extractive or the exploitative industry.

2007 S. B. Tallman New Generation in Internat. Strategic Managem. v. 89 An exploitative approach may also involve a strong emphasis on staff induction and sending new staff to previously existing R&D units.

1891 Glasgow Herald 3 Sept. 4/2 In addition to the normal advantage which one party..takes in consequence of a universal under-valuation of the future, there is a usurious, exploitative advantage which may be, and which is, taken.

1936 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 30 12 Man in his normal aim is coöperative and generous, not competitive and exploitative.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female ix. 200 Protections for all the young..against any exploitative or inhuman treatment.

1987 A. Béteille Ess. Compar. Sociol. (ed. 2) viii. 161 Deprived of hearth and home, the West African tribesman or peasant becomes a migrant labourer in France where he has to work under severely exploitative conditions.

2012 New Yorker 24 Sept. 96/3 Many people assume from the title that it's an exploitative reality show.