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exploiting

[ ik-sploi-ting ]

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noun

the act of utilizing something, especially for profit:
More resources should be allocated to the exploiting of the local market by attracting more business to the region.
the act of using a person or thing selfishly for one’s own ends:
When I saw the commercial, I was appalled at the exploiting of children's sorrow for corporate gain.

using a person or thing selfishly or for profit:
In late czarist Russia, activists began to galvanize workers and peasants against the exploiting landowners, industrialists, and state.

First recorded in 1830–40; exploit ²( def ) + -ing ¹( def ) for the noun senses; exploit ²( def ) + -ing ²( def ) for the adjective sense

In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.

Exploiting his role as a medical professional, he passes fiction off as fact and trades knowledge for fear.

The money his paintings have brought in has helped support his family, so a case for exploiting the child could be made.

But there is actually something more irksome than exploiting cancer for profits.

Most security experts believe individual accounts were hacked, by exploiting password resets, rather than the Apple cloud itself.

This Alfred Boucher believed he was exploiting Savarus, whereas the contrary was the case.

He began life as a medical practitioner, but made a fortune by exploiting a certain Pte Regnault and took to political journalism.

The only beast that makes a regular practice of exploiting his own kind is man.

We aim at developing the latent faculties and exploiting the hidden resources of the mind.

Lace-making and coral-fishing are the occupations of the inhabitants who do not live off of exploiting the tourists.

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