exploitation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The unfair treatment of people in order to benefit from their work or situation.

   The factory was accused of the exploitation of its workers.

2. 2
   noun

   The use of something, especially natural resources, for profit.

   The exploitation of the country's oil reserves transformed its economy.

Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”). By surface analysis, exploit + -ation.

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