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noun the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
noun an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)
originBorrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”). By surface analysis, exploit + -ation.
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