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What is the adjective for exploit?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs exploit, exploitate and exploiter which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

exploitative
  1. In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something
  2. (more generally) Of or relating to exploitation.
  3. (ecology) Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. manipulative, cunning, calculating, scheming, conniving, crafty, devious, shrewd, sly, wily, artful, designing, guileful, Machiavellian, unscrupulous, slippery, abusive, disingenuous, slick, unfair, exploitive, dishonest, immoral, unprincipled, dishonourable, shady, crooked, unethical, dishonorable, corrupt, evil, wicked, disreputable, base, shifty, underhanded, sinful, villainous, deceitful, bad, degenerate, dodgy, unsavoury, unsavory, improper, untrustworthy, two-faced, vile, rascally, roguish … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Around twenty-five percent of Australians cannot access financial services except on the most exploitative and usurious terms.”
      “The girls' love is treated delicately, like any young love affair, and never in an exploitative manner.”
      “Contracts such as the one signed by the band may have been exploitative and unfair, but, unfortunately, they were all too common at the time.”
exploitable
  1. Able to be exploited, especially commercially
  2. Easily fooled; credulous
  3. Synonyms:
      4. gullible, trusting, naive, unwary, susceptible, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, dupable, easy, innocent, credulous, unsophisticated, green, gullable, vulnerable, exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive, wide-eyed, dewy-eyed, easily controlled, easily exploited, easily influenced, trustful, ingenuous, unguarded, believing, deceivable, easily deceived, easily taken in, foolish, over-trusting, accepting, over-trustful, unsceptical, fleeceable, easily led, impressionable, childlike, unskeptical, unworldly, biting, simple, inexperienced, unquestioning, guileless, wet behind the ears, uncritical, born yesterday, as green as grass … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The exploitable teenager fell victim to the scam artist's deceptive tactics.”
      “The new software update has fixed several bugs, making it more exploitable for our specific needs.”
      “If there is exploitable gas, then they will speak to us again in due course about bringing it ashore.”
exploitive
  1. Exploitative: taking advantage of someone
  2. Synonyms:
      3. easy, exploitable, vulnerable, naïve, dupable, exploitative, exploitatory, guileless, gullible, overcredulous, susceptible, trustful, trusting, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unworldly, artless, credulous, defenseless, defenceless, fictile, impressionable, unsophisticated, unwary, innocent, malleable, uncritical, wide-eyed, dewy-eyed, genuine, naive, green, gullable, easily influenced, easily controlled, easily exploited, ingenuous, unguarded, easily deceived, easily taken in, believing, deceivable, inexperienced, childlike, over-trusting, unsceptical, fleeceable, unskeptical, accepting, simple … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Some teacher-exchange advocates consider any recruitment situation that forces applicants to go into debt to be exploitive.”
      “Is it just the slurs and condescension that make the situation exploitive or am I missing something?”
      “The details suggested a mean streak, an exploitive nature, a sloppy greediness, none of which seemed especially pleasant, let alone presidential.”
exploitational
  1. Of or relating to exploitation.
exploited
  1. simple past tense and past participle of exploit
  2. Synonyms:
      3. influenced, convinced, manipulated, persuaded, inveigled, tempted, urged, beguiled, brainwashed, bribed, coaxed, coerced, controlled, directed, finagled, jockeyed, played, steered, swayed, compelled, counseled, counselled, dragooned, enticed, impelled, intimidated, lured, worked, wrought, leaned on, pressurized, worked upon, browbeat, browbeaten, cajoled, incited, inclined, induced, prejudiced, prevailed upon, pulled strings with, talked round, twisted someone's arm, brought round, coloured, suborned, turned, brought pressure to bear on, brought pressure to bear upon, carried weight with … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The low wages paid to these exploited workers have an effect on all industries.”
exploiting
  1. present participle of exploit
  2. Synonyms:
      3. using, taking advantage of, manipulating, abusing, beguiling, controlling, deceiving, defrauding, fleecing, mistreating, patronising, patronizing, ripping off, targeting, targetting, victimising, profiting from, victimizing, cashing in on, cheating, ill-using, jerking around, leveraging, misusing, preying on, using for one's own ends, stepping on, trifling with, imposing on, maltreating, playing with, treating lightly, wringing, squeezing, bleeding, enslaving, swindling, milking, sucking dry, presuming on, playing upon, preying upon, walking all over, walking over, taking unfair advantage of, putting one over on, playing on, living off the backs of, imposing upon, taking for a ride … more
exploitered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of exploiter
exploitering
  1. present participle of exploiter
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