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exploitive

exploitive

English

Adjective

exploitive (comparative more exploitive, superlative most exploitive)

  1. Exploitative: taking advantage of someone
    • 2009, January 17, “William C. Rhoden”, in University Sells Itself During Playoffs:
      The University of Phoenix, a for-profit educational institution, has turned the traditional relationship between athletics and higher education on its head, reducing it to its commercially exploitive essence.