| Main Entry: | exploitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking advantage |
Synonyms: |
bleeding, profiteering, using |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrong use |
Synonyms: |
corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
Synonyms: |
breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crime, crookedness, demoralization, exploitation, extortion, fiddling, fraud, fraudulency, graft, jobbery, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, on the take, payoff, payola, profiteering, racket, shadiness, shady deal, shuffle, skimming, squeeze*, unscrupulousness, venality |
Antonyms: |
decency, honesty, honor, truthfulness, wholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | employment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | using something |
Synonyms: |
adoption, appliance, application, disposition, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, handling, operation, play, purpose, usage, usance, use, utilization |
Antonyms: |
misuse |
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
Synonyms: |
abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill-treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, perversion, profanation, prostitution, rough handling, solecism, squandering, waste |
| Main Entry: | operation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, working |
Synonyms: |
act, action, activity, affair, agency, application, ballgame, bit, carrying on, conveyance, course, deal, deed, doing, effect, effort, employment, engagement, enterprise, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, force, handiwork, happening, influence, instrumentality, labor, manipulation, motion, movement, performance, play, procedure, proceeding, process, progress, progression, scene, service, transaction, transference, trip, undertaking, use, work, workmanship |
Antonyms: |
idleness, inaction, inutility, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | rip-off |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick; robbery |
Synonyms: |
cheat, con*, exploitation, fraud, gyp, larceny, lift*, pinch*, purloining, racket, steal, stealing, swindle, theft, thievery, thieving |
Antonyms: |
gift, giving, offering |
| Main Entry: | sexual harassment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unwanted sexual advance |
Synonyms: |
exploitation, impropriety, inappropriate behavior, intimidation, offensive sexual advance, sexual abuse, sexual pressure, suggestive comments, unprofessional behavior, unwanted sexual advances, victimization |
| Main Entry: | opportunism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expediency |
Synonyms: |
advantage, advantageousness, expedience, exploitation, opportunity, timeliness |
| Main Entry: | usury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lending money at a high interest rate |
Synonyms: |
exploitation, stealing |