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exploitation

noun as in taking advantage

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Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.

And far from being secondary partners, Scots featured disproportionately in overseas imperial exploitation.

She is rootless and stateless, having little in the way of rights or protection from exploitation.

Syrian women and girls are facing increased danger from sexual exploitation in the very refugee camps where they sought safety.

They were equally amazed to learn that Ed Piskor was white, but not a word was said about cultural exploitation or appropriation.

For, of course, as capital heaped up and its control became concentrated, the ratio of exploitation increased.

The opinion was offered that they represented the exploitation of some new brand of whisky which would announce itself later.

Yet on the medical profession rests the responsibility for the exploitation of this nostrum.

Evidently this method of exploitation pays; that it does pay is a disgrace to the medical profession.

It should not be difficult for the physician to fix the status of iridium under this sort of exploitation.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exploitation, such as: bleeding, using, and profiteering.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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