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exploitation

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn̩//

The act of utilizing something; industry.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of utilizing something; industry.

    the exploitation of natural resources

  2. 2

    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."

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    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, […]

    The difference is that obtaining increased financial input during the production phase of the film reduces the risk during the exploitation phase.

  5. 5

    A genre of media focused on lurid depictions of topical social issues such as violence, sexuality and marginalized groups.

    […]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."

    It is here that we arrive at the main question of this paper: can an exploitation director be an auteur?

Etymology

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

Forms

plural
exploitations
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).