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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exploitative
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sexually exploitative movie
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Contemporary academic puritans regard studentprofessor intimacies as inherently exploitative.
▪ However, they concentrated labour, largely that of women and children, in a more visibly exploitative mode.
▪ Informal labour relations tend to be more exploitative than those within the legitimate economy.
▪ It's an unscrupulous way of exploitative discounting.
▪ Johnston said the contract was exploitative and restrictive, with the financial arrangements much less lucrative than she'd expected.
▪ They are doomed by exploitative capital operating on a global scale.
▪ To human beings the existence of exploitative relations of production would be agonizing were they perceived simply as exploitative.
▪ Traditional subordination is arbitrary, exploitative arid alien to the modern values of management by commitment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exploitative

1882, from French exploitatif, from exploit (see exploit (n.)). Alternative exploitive (by 1859) appears to be a native formation from exploit + -ive.

Wiktionary
exploitative

a. 1 In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something 2 (context more generally English) Of or relating to exploitation. 3 (context ecology of competition English) Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.

WordNet
exploitative

adj. tending to exploit or make use of [syn: exploitatory, exploitive]

Usage examples of "exploitative".

Compared with Roman imperialism, with its frankly assimilationist, exploitative, and repressive policies, British imperialism seemed to Cromer to be preferable, if somewhat more wishy-washy.

All photojournalism is essentially exploitative, but in photography the act of invasion is mitigated by the wonderful speed of light, which lets you intrude from a distance.

Several legislators have joined sociologists in condemning the program as cruel and exploitative.

They were down in the parking lot earlier on filling up partially rotted green bell peppers with red marine alkyd enamel paint which they will then hurl at sexually exploitative billboards later tonight.

The treacherous moonlight flit of the Firvulag contingent, who absconded with the bulk of the survival gear just as the worst of the rainy season came upon them The struggles with sick and injured and defeated and exploitative refugees The headlong flight from Celadeyr of Afaliah and his gang of ancien regime fanatics- The dreadful tnp across the Catalan Wilderness, following a littleused track that degenerated into a quagmire alive with venomous snakes, giant mosquitoes, and biting leeches- - And then sanctuary The foothills of the eastern Pyrenees, rich in mines and plantations, and the dangerously depleted cities of Tarasiah and Geroniah eager to welcome new citizens (By then news of the Firvulag seizure of Burask in the distant north had seeped southward, and there were hints that other inadequately defended cities .

The treacherous moonlight flit of the Firvulag contingent, who absconded with the bulk of the survival gear just as the worst of the rainy season came upon them The struggles with sick and injured and defeated and exploitative refugees The headlong flight from Celadeyr of Afaliah and his gang of ancien regime fanatics- The dreadful tnp across the Catalan Wilderness, following a littleused track that degenerated into a quagmire alive with venomous snakes, giant mosquitoes, and biting leeches- - And then sanctuary The foothills of .