exploitationn.

Brit.

/ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌɛkˌsplɔɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French exploitation.

Etymology: < French exploitation action of harvesting or extracting natural resources (1662), action or practice of taking advantage of something (1829, originally and frequently with reference to unfair or unethical action), action of making illicit or excessive profit from a person or thing (1832; 1340 in Middle French as expletation in sense ‘confiscation of a possession or possessions’) < exploiter exploit v. + -ation -ation suffix.In sense 2 after exploit v. 4b.

a. The action of extracting or harvesting natural resources from a place; the action of deriving value from a natural resource by harvesting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > turning to account

exploiting1538

improvement?1611

exploitation1795

optimization1857

exploitage1864

exploiture1874

optimizing1877

1795 ‘Col. Frederick’ tr. Memorial Exploitation Woods Corsica in Descr. Corsica App. 149 The territory proposed for exploitation forms a part of a certain jurisdiction of ninety-one thousand acres of land.

1803 Ann. Rev. 1 362 Similar proofs of the deficient commercial exploitation of these colonies perpetually occur.

1881 Nature 29 Sept. 524/2 The second [paper]..inquires whether the exploitation of plants or animals be more profitable in the given society.

1914 Proc. 7th Meeting Governors States of Union 77 These western states waged a vigorous campaign of land and resource exploitation in an effort to put their capital on an earning basis.

1992 M. Atherden Upland Brit. xi. 199 A different possibility is the exploitation of vegetation types currently regarded as weeds, such as bracken, gorse or rhododendron, for the production of biofuels.

2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Dec. 45/2 The exploitation of resources in North America during the five-hundred-year post-discovery era followed a typical sequence—fish, furs, game, timber, farming virgin soils.

b. The action or fact of deriving benefit from something by making full or good use of it; an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1831 Q. Rev. July 429 The tendency of the human race is from a state of antagonism to that of an universal peaceful association..; from what they call l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme to the exploitation of the globe by industry.

1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 766 What is to be the next exploitation of genius? Travels?

1890 Speaker 1 Feb. 123/2 The Government declared that contract null and void, and took the exploitation of the [railway] line into its own hands.

1945 Fortune Mar. 164/2 Growth in favor of the foreign types of domestic cheeses..before the war indicated that a wide market was ready for exploitation.

1982 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context: Lab. Man. & Study Guide 160/1 Most European and US plastics producers see future profitability in the exploitation of their superior technical base.

2010 Guardian 15 Feb. (Innovative Britain Suppl.) 11/1 (advt.) The STFC promotes and supports scientific and engineering research and the exploitation of those research outcomes through collaboration between industry and academia.

c. The action or fact of taking advantage of something or someone in an unfair or unethical manner; utilization of something for one's own ends. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > manipulation or exploitation

manipulation1828

exploitation1832

exploitage1864

over-exploitation1916

puppeteering1920

stitch-up1980

1832 Westm. Rev. Apr. 296 The Saint-Simonians go on to state, that ‘the ruling cause..of the “exploitation” of man by his fellow-creature, is the constitution of property as it at present stands’.

1857 O. A. Brownson Convert xiv. 255 A poor man..become rich by trade, speculation, or the successful exploitation of labor.

1874 MacMillan's Mag. Aug. 327/1 Their whole existence [was] an exploitation of the helpless people they reigned over.

1911 Mother Earth Dec. 296 You are the guilty ones, you who uphold the ‘law and order’ founded on..tyranny and exploitation.

1958 G. F. Kennan Russia, Atom & West v. 77 The Marxists claim, of course, that colonialism invariably represented a massive and cruel exploitation of the colonial peoples.

1991 20th Cent. Brit. Hist. 2 202 Beneath the mask lay deep divisions of class, exacerbated by..the exploitation of underpaid women workers.

2010 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 17 Sept. 5/2 Commercial sexual exploitation is all too common in the media.

†2. Military. The action of reconnoitring a place, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > reconnaissance

scouringc1471

scry1523

discovery?1574

reconnaissance1779

reconnoitre1781

reconnoissance1802

outwatch1852

exploitation1871

recco1917

recon1918

photoreconnaissance1920

recce1941

photo-recce1946

1871 Daily News 18 Sept. It surely indicated lax exploitation that the advance column should have blindly butted its head against this broken bridge.

1899 A. MacArthur Let. 10 Nov. in E. S. Otis Rep. Sept 1899–May 1900 (1900) 51 Smith's reconnaissance..resulted in fruitless contact with an outpost, but developed the fact that the road under exploitation was useless for our purposes.

Compounds

C1. attributive. Designating a type of film, typically low-budget and often characterized by graphically portrayed sex or violence, which is regarded as exploiting a particular trend or a taste for lurid or morbid subject matter, as exploitation film, exploitation movie, etc.Cf. blaxploitation n., sexploitation n.

ΚΠ

1961 Winnipeg Free Press 15 Apr. (TV & Radio Guide) 6/2 If the producers had been honest enough to say it was an exploitation film it would be fine, but the way they treated it you'd think it was going to be put in a time capsule and it's terrible.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 10 July 16/2 It's an exploitation movie than is nonetheless more coherent..than many tonier efforts today.

1983 Observer 11 Dec. 32/4 A parody of a sorority house stab-and-slash exploitation horror movie.

1999 London Student 5 Feb. 18/4 It is in fact as gently subversive as his earlier exploitation flicks were brash and tasteless.

2010 M. Selfe in L. Mazdon & C. Wheatley Je t'aime...moi non Plus x. 165 It was an Italian-made exploitation thriller.

C2.

exploitation well n. a well sunk in order to obtain oil, gas, or other commodity from a proven deposit; cf. development well n. at development n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1902 San Diego Union 6 Aug. 5/5 Mr. Flint will begin sinking the six exploitation wells in Mission Valley in a few days, to determine the flow of water on J. W. Sefton's land.

1916 Petroleum World Sept. 444/2 During the first six years..the company need not keep more than twelve exploitation wells in operation.

1966 Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) (ed. 5) 32/2 After oil has been discovered, the first wells to be drilled to establish the limits of the field are ‘outstep appraisal’ wells, all subsequent wells being ‘exploitation’ wells or ‘development’ wells.

2015 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 July 10 OAO Rosneft and Statoil ASA have jointly drilled two horizontal exploitation wells in the PK1 layer of North Komsomolskoye field.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	exploitation
释义	exploitationn. Brit. /ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɛkˌsplɔɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French exploitation. Etymology: < French exploitation action of harvesting or extracting natural resources (1662), action or practice of taking advantage of something (1829, originally and frequently with reference to unfair or unethical action), action of making illicit or excessive profit from a person or thing (1832; 1340 in Middle French as expletation in sense ‘confiscation of a possession or possessions’) < exploiter exploit v. + -ation -ation suffix.In sense 2 after exploit v. 4b. 1. a. The action of extracting or harvesting natural resources from a place; the action of deriving value from a natural resource by harvesting. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > turning to account exploiting1538 improvement?1611 exploitation1795 optimization1857 exploitage1864 exploiture1874 optimizing1877 1795 ‘Col. Frederick’ tr. Memorial Exploitation Woods Corsica in Descr. Corsica App. 149 The territory proposed for exploitation forms a part of a certain jurisdiction of ninety-one thousand acres of land. 1803 Ann. Rev. 1 362 Similar proofs of the deficient commercial exploitation of these colonies perpetually occur. 1881 Nature 29 Sept. 524/2 The second [paper]..inquires whether the exploitation of plants or animals be more profitable in the given society. 1914 Proc. 7th Meeting Governors States of Union 77 These western states waged a vigorous campaign of land and resource exploitation in an effort to put their capital on an earning basis. 1992 M. Atherden Upland Brit. xi. 199 A different possibility is the exploitation of vegetation types currently regarded as weeds, such as bracken, gorse or rhododendron, for the production of biofuels. 2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Dec. 45/2 The exploitation of resources in North America during the five-hundred-year post-discovery era followed a typical sequence—fish, furs, game, timber, farming virgin soils. b. The action or fact of deriving benefit from something by making full or good use of it; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1831 Q. Rev. July 429 The tendency of the human race is from a state of antagonism to that of an universal peaceful association..; from what they call l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme to the exploitation of the globe by industry. 1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 766 What is to be the next exploitation of genius? Travels? 1890 Speaker 1 Feb. 123/2 The Government declared that contract null and void, and took the exploitation of the [railway] line into its own hands. 1945 Fortune Mar. 164/2 Growth in favor of the foreign types of domestic cheeses..before the war indicated that a wide market was ready for exploitation. 1982 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context: Lab. Man. & Study Guide 160/1 Most European and US plastics producers see future profitability in the exploitation of their superior technical base. 2010 Guardian 15 Feb. (Innovative Britain Suppl.) 11/1 (advt.) The STFC promotes and supports scientific and engineering research and the exploitation of those research outcomes through collaboration between industry and academia. c. The action or fact of taking advantage of something or someone in an unfair or unethical manner; utilization of something for one's own ends. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > manipulation or exploitation manipulation1828 exploitation1832 exploitage1864 over-exploitation1916 puppeteering1920 stitch-up1980 1832 Westm. Rev. Apr. 296 The Saint-Simonians go on to state, that ‘the ruling cause..of the “exploitation” of man by his fellow-creature, is the constitution of property as it at present stands’. 1857 O. A. Brownson Convert xiv. 255 A poor man..become rich by trade, speculation, or the successful exploitation of labor. 1874 MacMillan's Mag. Aug. 327/1 Their whole existence [was] an exploitation of the helpless people they reigned over. 1911 Mother Earth Dec. 296 You are the guilty ones, you who uphold the ‘law and order’ founded on..tyranny and exploitation. 1958 G. F. Kennan Russia, Atom & West v. 77 The Marxists claim, of course, that colonialism invariably represented a massive and cruel exploitation of the colonial peoples. 1991 20th Cent. Brit. Hist. 2 202 Beneath the mask lay deep divisions of class, exacerbated by..the exploitation of underpaid women workers. 2010 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 17 Sept. 5/2 Commercial sexual exploitation is all too common in the media. †2. Military. The action of reconnoitring a place, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > reconnaissance scouringc1471 scry1523 discovery?1574 reconnaissance1779 reconnoitre1781 reconnoissance1802 outwatch1852 exploitation1871 recco1917 recon1918 photoreconnaissance1920 recce1941 photo-recce1946 1871 Daily News 18 Sept. It surely indicated lax exploitation that the advance column should have blindly butted its head against this broken bridge. 1899 A. MacArthur Let. 10 Nov. in E. S. Otis Rep. Sept 1899–May 1900 (1900) 51 Smith's reconnaissance..resulted in fruitless contact with an outpost, but developed the fact that the road under exploitation was useless for our purposes. Compounds C1. attributive. Designating a type of film, typically low-budget and often characterized by graphically portrayed sex or violence, which is regarded as exploiting a particular trend or a taste for lurid or morbid subject matter, as exploitation film, exploitation movie, etc.Cf. blaxploitation n., sexploitation n. ΚΠ 1961 Winnipeg Free Press 15 Apr. (TV & Radio Guide) 6/2 If the producers had been honest enough to say it was an exploitation film it would be fine, but the way they treated it you'd think it was going to be put in a time capsule and it's terrible. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 10 July 16/2 It's an exploitation movie than is nonetheless more coherent..than many tonier efforts today. 1983 Observer 11 Dec. 32/4 A parody of a sorority house stab-and-slash exploitation horror movie. 1999 London Student 5 Feb. 18/4 It is in fact as gently subversive as his earlier exploitation flicks were brash and tasteless. 2010 M. Selfe in L. Mazdon & C. Wheatley Je t'aime...moi non Plus x. 165 It was an Italian-made exploitation thriller. C2. exploitation well n. a well sunk in order to obtain oil, gas, or other commodity from a proven deposit; cf. development well n. at development n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1902 San Diego Union 6 Aug. 5/5 Mr. Flint will begin sinking the six exploitation wells in Mission Valley in a few days, to determine the flow of water on J. W. Sefton's land. 1916 Petroleum World Sept. 444/2 During the first six years..the company need not keep more than twelve exploitation wells in operation. 1966 Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) (ed. 5) 32/2 After oil has been discovered, the first wells to be drilled to establish the limits of the field are ‘outstep appraisal’ wells, all subsequent wells being ‘exploitation’ wells or ‘development’ wells. 2015 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 July 10 OAO Rosneft and Statoil ASA have jointly drilled two horizontal exploitation wells in the PK1 layer of North Komsomolskoye field. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1795
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