exploitation en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”). By surface analysis, exploit + -ation.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of utilizing something; industry.
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.
1936, Harold Laski, “The Rise of European Liberalism”, in Collected Works of Harold Laski, London: Routledge, published 1997, page 20:the exploitation of natural resources
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(countable, uncountable) The improper use of something for selfish purposes.
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."
2018 January 22, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Jan 22, 2018:
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(countable, uncountable) The act or result of forcibly depriving someone of something to which they have a right.
Undocumented migrants are vulnerable to exploitation.
The abolition of exploitation meant, in his view, not that workers should receive the equivalent of what they produced, but that the surplus value they do not receive in wages should accrue to society in the form of fresh investments, emergency reserves, payment for necessary 'unproductive' services, administration, etc., plus provision for those unable to work.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 333:
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(countable, uncountable) The marketing and promotion of a film.
This territory continued to be the greatest field for the exploitation and distribution of our films non-theatrically, […]
1928, Canada. Dept. of Trade and Commerce, Annual Report:The difference is that obtaining increased financial input during the production phase of the film reduces the risk during the exploitation phase.
2017, Finola Kerrigan, Film Marketing:
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(countable, uncountable) A genre of media focused on lurid depictions of topical social issues such as violence, sexuality and marginalized groups.
It is here that we arrive at the main question of this paper: can an exploitation director be an auteur?
2016 September 23, Pawel Aleksandrowicz, The Cinematography of Roger Corman: Exploitation Filmmaker or Auteur?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:[…]certainly it is not an adventure story, either, as McKernan seems to suggest, an exploitation novel aiming to attract readers through the use of "the odd," "the perverse," or "the exotic."
2013 June 29, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Passion for Place Book II: Between the Vital Spacing and the Creative Horizons of Fulfilment, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:
Forms
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| exploitations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
exploitative · exploitationer · nonexploitation · antiexploitation · sexploitation · underexploitation · exploitational · unexploitation · blaxploitation · counterexploitation · exploitation film · superexploitation · Nazi exploitation · overexploitation · -sploitation · cyberexploitation
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Translations (57)
hu kizsákmányolás (act of exploiting) · nl uitbuiting (act of exploiting) · et ekspluateerimine (act of exploiting) · fa بهرهبرداری (act of exploiting) · el εκμετάλλευση (act of exploiting) · ar اِسْتِغْلَال (act of exploiting) · nl uitbaten (act of exploiting) · sk vykorisťovanie (act of exploiting) · ml ചൂഷണം (act of exploiting) · uk ви́користання (act of exploiting) · tg интифоъ (act of exploiting) · de Ausbeutung (act of exploiting) · cs vykořisťování (act of exploiting) · ja 搾取 (act of exploiting) · da udbytning (act of exploiting) · pt exploração (act of exploiting) · it valorizzazione (act of exploiting) · sk využitie (act of exploiting) · fi riisto (act of exploiting) · nl exploitatie (act of exploiting) · be эксплуата́цыя (act of exploiting) · ga dúshaothrú (act of exploiting) · tg истисмор (act of exploiting) · pl wyzysk (act of exploiting) · cs využití (act of exploiting) · pl eksploatacja (act of exploiting) · hi शोषण (act of exploiting) · fa استثمار (act of exploiting) · hy շահագործում (act of exploiting) · mk експлоатација (act of exploiting) · tl panghuhuthot (act of exploiting) · az istismar (act of exploiting) · ka ექსპლუატაცია (act of exploiting) · uk експлуата́ція (act of exploiting) · uz foydalanish (act of exploiting) · ro exploatare (act of exploiting) · ru эксплуата́ция (act of exploiting) · sw unyonyaji (act of exploiting) · bg експлоата́ция (act of exploiting) · uk використа́ння (act of exploiting) · it sfruttamento (act of exploiting) · cmn 開發 /开发 (act of exploiting) · uz ekspluatatsiya (act of exploiting) · ro exploatație (act of exploiting) · es explotación (act of exploiting) · ru испо́льзование (act of exploiting) · cmn 剝削 /剥削 (act of exploiting) · fa انتفاع (act of exploiting) · ca explotació (act of exploiting) · tr sömürü (act of exploiting) · pl spożytkowanie (act of exploiting) · ko 착취 (act of exploiting) · sv exploatering (act of exploiting) · ru примене́ние (act of exploiting) · tr istismar (act of exploiting) · fr exploitation (act of exploiting) · pl wykorzystanie (act of exploiting)