exploitation

Definition

The act of utilizing something; industry.

Etymology

Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”).

Example Sentences

• "Whereas in the middle ages the idea of acquiring wealth was limited by a body of moral rules imposed under the sanction of religious authority, after 1500 those rules, and the institutions, habits, and ideas to which they had given birth, were no longer deemed adequate. They were felt as constraint. There were evaded, criticized, abandoned, because it was felt that they interfered with the exploitation of the means of production."
• "the exploitation of children in beauty pageants"
• ""The second function is for seers who have used magic, but do not know about the second function. This criteria selects the informed while preventing premeditated exploitation of this function.""

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