exploitation

Other forms of exploitation

plural

exploitations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about exploitation

What does exploitation mean?

exploitation means "the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exploitation?

exploitation has 4 syllables: ex-ploi-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌɛkˌsplɔɪˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for exploitation?

Close synonyms include development, victimization, victimisation, using. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exploitation a common word?

exploitation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with exploitation?

89 words rhyme with exploitation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.