exploitive

Exploitative: taking advantage of someone

Adjective

  1. Exploitative: taking advantage of someone
    • 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. - 2009...

Origin

Etymology tree English exploit Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English exploitive From exploit + -ive.

Forms

more exploitive most exploitive

Derived

exploitively exploitiveness nonexploitive