单词 | over-exploited |
释义 | over-exploitedadj. That has been exploited excessively. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > misused > manipulated or exploited preyed-upon1845 manipulated1855 put-upon1866 exploited1867 over-exploited1932 1932 Social Forces 11 113/1 Our high tariff is..imposed for the purpose of shutting out goods that are made by cheap, over-exploited labor in foreign lands. 1961 Carolina Q. Spring 18 It seems that only in today's Southern fiction does Tobacco Road..continue to live—but only as a weary, overexploited phantom. 1998 Outdoor Canada Summer 94/2 Conservationists are..talking not only about saving surviving tracts of wilderness, but about ‘rewilding’ our over-exploited landscapes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1932 |
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