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What does exploitative mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word exploitative? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something
  2. (more generally) Of or relating to exploitation.
  3. (ecology) Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.
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They need to be there to protect workers from exploitative situations and to represent their interests.
The girls' love is treated delicately, like any young love affair, and never in an exploitative manner.
The yogi forsakes stealing, lying, cheating, killing, and other exploitative and self-gratifying behaviours.
On what grounds might we justify interfering with consensual and mutually advantageous exploitative transactions?
The main issue is plant closures, as the auto industry moves to take advantage of more exploitative conditions in other regions.
But it's important to realize that exploitative companies do not gain their stranglehold accidentally.

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