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Synonyms for exploit

take advantage of

make the best use of

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for exploit

to take advantage of unfairly

to control to one's own advantage by artful or indirect means

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Synonyms for exploit

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If Bayonetta 2 falls down anywhere it's with the exploitatively sexualised nature of its heroine, while the attempts at humour often feel juvenile.
However, some film buffs would prefer that their pet motion pictures don't play "the medical card," because that's too facile a play to get viewers' tears to fall torrentiallyand to strum exploitatively those hammy heartstrings!
This becomes all the more apparent in a grisly sequence exploitatively modeled on the Manson Family's Tate-LaBianca murders, in which the deranged, Satan-worshiping hippie daughter of Mia and John's next-door neighbors violently attacks the couple in their home (with like-minded hippie boyfriend in tow), resulting in a kitchen knife being plunged into Mia's bulging belly.
Now, however, "Dodd-Frank has had major impact in eastern Congo by making it much less economically viable for illegal armed groups and the army to exploitatively mine 3 out of the 4 major conflict minerals," Enough's Field Researcher Fidel Bafilemba says.
In other words, as with dishonesty itself, (134) one need not know or believe that one is acting exploitatively in order to act exploitatively.
Past studies show that when power is not used exploitatively or coercively, there is an overall improvement in relationships (Crook & Combs, 2007; Frazier & Summers, 1986; Jonsson & Zineldin, 2003; Maloni & Benton, 2000).
When it comes to exploitatively sentimental works like the movie Life Is Beautiful, the appeal of a child-centered story can seem cynical: The suffering of the innocent is a surefire way of delivering an emotional charge.
Zwolinski states, "price gouging [is] a practice in which prices on certain kinds of necessary items are raised in the wake of an emergency to what appear to be unfair or exploitatively high levels." Id.; see also Jeremy Snyder, What's the Matter with Price Gouging?, 19 BUS.
Let me offer some concrete if rather oversimplified illustrations: the "orally dependent", by their inability to live independently, exploitatively fixated on other people and so restrict their personal freedoms and rights.
Where Warner was convinced that middle-class tourists were exploitatively using and destroying nature, Murray and his advocates believed such an attitude was an outrageous assault on the founding principles of the nation.
(113) Power is exercised exploitatively where it is instead used to advance the interests of the fiduciary or a third party.
The strategic geographical location of the Nuba Mountains region in the center of Sudan places it at odds with successive rulers of Sudan be they colonialists or nationalists: once the area was an impoverished 'Closed District', and, thereafter, it is not only deprived and awkward region, but and it is also exploitatively chastised by various interest groups in their competition for resources.
No less doubtful, however, was the fact that such a machine, humanly speaking, 'worked' exploitatively, and that it periodically sputtered into malfunction, before collapsing altogether with cyclical punctuality, inflicting all manner of pain across the social spectrum.
But while he effectively depicts the pernicious effects that capitalism has on the lives of average Americans, from exploitatively low wages to home foreclosures and mass layoffs, he also gives his critique a religious dimension by asserting that the capitalist system itself offends God and is contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ.