What does exploiting mean?
Definitions for exploiting
ex·ploit·ing
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Dictionary of Nautical Terms
exploiting
Transporting trees or timber by a river. Exploit was an old verb meaning to perform.
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exploiting
The act of taking advantage of people or ecosystems (natural resources) to create profit and wealth.
Using people and nature to create for profit.
Submitted by JP03 on March 15, 2015
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of exploiting in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of exploiting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of exploiting in a Sentence
Exploiting vulnerable individuals for profit is shameful, as is political grandstanding around tragedy, and my administration will continue to do everything possible to stop human smugglers and traffickers from taking advantage of people who are seeking to enter the United States between ports of entry.
To my knowledge, there's never been a prosecution of a Vietnamese trafficking gang for bringing children in for this purpose, we've actually locked up, prosecuted and convicted more victims unlawfully than we have prosecuted those that are exploiting then.
Afghan journalists face threats from all sides: government officials exploiting weak legal protections to intimidate reporters and editors to compel them not to cover controversial topics; the Taliban and other insurgent groups using threats and violence to compel reporting they consider favorable; and police and justice officials letting threats, assaults and even murders go uninvestigated and unprosecuted.
Instead of exploiting the opportunities of the Web, some lawmakers in the European Parliament are nursing their phobias, threatening Google and other large Internet companies who are in fierce competition with each other, is a loser's debate.
Social media and video games prey on user addiction, siphoning our kids' attention from the real world and extracting profits from fostering compulsive habits, no matter this business model's advantages to the tech industry, one thing is clear : there is no excuse for exploiting children through such practices.
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