What is another word for exploiting?

Pronunciation: [ɛksplˈɔ͡ɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

Exploiting is a word that typically carries a negative connotation as it implies taking advantage of someone or something for personal gain. There are several synonyms that can be used in place of exploiting, including manipulating, leveraging, utilizing, maximizing, capitalizing on, and profiting from. Manipulating implies using tactics to control a situation or individual in a way that benefits oneself. Leveraging emphasizes the use of resources or connections to gain an advantage. Utilizing and maximizing both suggest making the most of available resources or opportunities. Capitalizing on implies taking advantage of a situation for financial gain. Profiting from emphasizes the financial benefit gained from exploiting something or someone.

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Usage examples for Exploiting

The general effect of industrial improvements, according to Marx, is-1st, to reduce wages; 2nd, to prolong the day of labour; 3rd, to overwork one-half of the working class; 4th, to throw the rest out of employ; and, 5th, to concentrate the whole surplus return in the hands of a few capitalists who make their gains by exploiting the labourers, and increase them by exploiting one another.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
He'd been fairly wealthy himself at one time; but since he had refrained from exploiting the Tube's commercial possibilities, his continuing work with it was exhausting his capital.
"Gone Fishing"
James H. Schmitz
The Conservative party hoped by exploiting "the Ulster question" to bring about the downfall of the Liberal Government: and the further the Ulster Party went, the more thoroughly they frightened moderate people in England by threats of bloodshed, anarchy and civil war, the better: the more truculent the threats of armed resistance the greater the probability that they need never be put into force.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry

Famous quotes with Exploiting

  • Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
    Kjell Magne Bondevik
  • The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
    James Bovard
  • Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
    Laura Dern
  • Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
    Marvin Harris
  • Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
    Arthur Keith

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