Exploitative

Quick meaning: Exploitative is an adjective meaning In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something.

Meaning

In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something.

More Meanings

1. (more generally) Of or relating to exploitation.
2. (ecology, of competition) Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.

Example Sentences

We are protesting the company's exploitative policies.

In this model, because competition among consumers is merely exploitative, the consumer species do not directly influence each other's fitness. […] only through their effect on resource abundance, y.

Carey McWilliams offers an exploitative theory to explain anti-Semitism.¹⁸ Social exclusion of Jews, he points out, commenced in the 1870’s just when huge fortunes were being made in industry and in railroading.

The ways in which tadpoles inhibit each other’s growth have been of particular interest since Richards (1958) and Rose (1960) first indicated that interference as well as exploitative mechanisms may be involved.

Synonyms for exploitative

Depending on context, synonyms include exploitive, consumptive, exploitatory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exploitive, exploitatory, consumptive, exploitation, exploiter, opportunistic.

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