Exact Match:
- exploitation
- an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly); "capitalistic exploitation of the working class"; "paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization"
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits"
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- highway robbery
collapse - robbery of travellers on or near a public road
- an exorbitant price; "what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery" related words >
- armed robbery,
- asportation,
- assault and robbery,
- banditry,
- bank robbery,
- cattle lifting,
- cattle stealing,
- exploitation,
- extortion,
- heist,
- hijacking,
- holdup,
- loan-sharking,
- mugging,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- pocket picking,
- purse snatching,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- shylocking,
- stickup,
- stickup job,
- surcharge,
- usury
- Cosa Nostra,
- Mafia,
- advance,
- advancement,
- advancing,
- black market,
- bootlegging,
- exploitation,
- extortion,
- gambling,
- gray market,
- highway robbery,
- holdup,
- illegal commerce,
- illegal operations,
- illegitimate business,
- illicit business,
- lend-lease,
- lending,
- lending at interest,
- loaning,
- moneylending,
- moonshining,
- narcotics traffic,
- organized crime,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- prostitution,
- protection racket,
- racket,
- shady dealings,
- shylocking,
- surcharge,
- the rackets,
- the syndicate,
- traffic in women,
- usury,
- white slavery
- handling
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- the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
- manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something related words >
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- action,
- administration,
- agency,
- authority,
- care,
- caressing,
- charge,
- command,
- commission,
- completion,
- conduct,
- control,
- custodianship,
- direction,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- driving,
- effectuation,
- employment,
- enactment,
- execution,
- exercise,
- exploitation,
- feeling,
- fingering,
- friction,
- frottage,
- functioning,
- governance,
- government,
- guidance,
- husbandry,
- implementation,
- intendance,
- lead,
- leading,
- management,
- managery,
- managing,
- manipulation,
- means of dealing,
- occupation,
- operancy,
- operation,
- ordering,
- oversight,
- palpation,
- performance,
- performing,
- perpetration,
- petting,
- pilotage,
- practice,
- pressure,
- regulation,
- responsibility,
- rubbing,
- running,
- steerage,
- steering,
- stewardship,
- stroking,
- superintendence,
- superintendency,
- supervision,
- the conn,
- the helm,
- the wheel,
- touching,
- transaction,
- treatment,
- usage,
- using,
- utilization,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- usury
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- the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
- an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest related words >
- Cosa Nostra,
- Mafia,
- advance,
- advancement,
- advancing,
- bank rate,
- black market,
- bootlegging,
- compensatory interest,
- compound interest,
- discount rate,
- exorbitant interest,
- exploitation,
- extortion,
- gambling,
- gray market,
- gross interest,
- highway robbery,
- holdup,
- illegal commerce,
- illegal operations,
- illegitimate business,
- illicit business,
- interest,
- interest rate,
- lend-lease,
- lending,
- lending at interest,
- loan-sharking,
- loaning,
- lucrative interest,
- moneylending,
- moonshining,
- mortgage points,
- narcotics traffic,
- net interest,
- organized crime,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- penal interest,
- premium,
- price,
- price of money,
- prostitution,
- protection racket,
- racket,
- rate,
- rate of interest,
- shady dealings,
- shylocking,
- simple interest,
- surcharge,
- the rackets,
- the syndicate,
- traffic in women,
- white slavery
- extortion
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- the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)
- unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority); "the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty"
- an exorbitant charge related words >
- armed robbery,
- asportation,
- assault and robbery,
- badger game,
- banditry,
- bank robbery,
- blackmail,
- bloodsucking,
- call,
- call for,
- cattle lifting,
- cattle stealing,
- claim,
- contribution,
- demand,
- demand for,
- draft,
- drain,
- duty,
- exaction,
- exploitation,
- extortionate demand,
- heavy demand,
- heist,
- highway robbery,
- hijacking,
- holdup,
- imposition,
- impost,
- indent,
- insistent demand,
- levy,
- loan-sharking,
- mugging,
- nonnegotiable demand,
- notice,
- order,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- pocket picking,
- protection racket,
- purse snatching,
- rending,
- requirement,
- requisition,
- ripping,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- rush,
- rush order,
- shakedown,
- shylocking,
- stickup,
- stickup job,
- surcharge,
- tax,
- taxing,
- tearing,
- tribute,
- ultimatum,
- usury,
- vampirism,
- warning,
- wrench,
- wrenching,
- wrest,
- wresting,
- wring,
- wringing
- surcharge
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- an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
- show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- fill to an excessive degree; "The air was surcharged with tension"
- print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- fill to capacity with people; "The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"
- charge an extra fee, as for a special service related words >
- bale,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- burden,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- cargo,
- charge,
- charging,
- choke,
- clip,
- congest,
- congestion,
- cram,
- crowd,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- deadweight,
- doctor accounts,
- drag,
- drench,
- encumbrance,
- engorgement,
- exploit,
- exploitation,
- extortion,
- fleece,
- freight,
- garble accounts,
- glut,
- gluttonize,
- gorge,
- gouge,
- handicap,
- highway robbery,
- hold up,
- holdup,
- hyperemia,
- incubus,
- incumbency,
- jam,
- jam-pack,
- lading,
- load,
- loading,
- loan-sharking,
- millstone,
- oppression,
- overassessment,
- overbrimming,
- overburden,
- overcharge,
- overfeed,
- overfill,
- overflow,
- overfreight,
- overfullness,
- overlade,
- overload,
- overprice,
- overspill,
- overstuff,
- overtax,
- overtaxing,
- overweight,
- overweighting,
- pack,
- plethora,
- pressure,
- profiteer,
- repletion,
- saddling,
- salt,
- satiate,
- satiety,
- saturate,
- saturation,
- screw,
- shylocking,
- skin,
- soak,
- stick,
- sting,
- stuff,
- supercharge,
- superincumbency,
- supersaturate,
- supersaturation,
- surfeit,
- swindle,
- taxing,
- usury,
- victimize
- overcharge
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- a price that is too high
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price related words >
- adorn,
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- anticathexis,
- ballyhoo,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- build up,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- carry too far,
- cathectic energy,
- cathexis,
- charge,
- choke,
- clip,
- color,
- congest,
- congestion,
- convolute,
- countercathexis,
- cram,
- crowd,
- decorate,
- desire concentration,
- draw the longbow,
- drench,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- energy charge,
- engorgement,
- enrich,
- exaggerate,
- exploit,
- exploitation,
- extortion,
- festoon,
- fleece,
- flourish,
- fudge,
- gild,
- glut,
- gluttonize,
- go to extremes,
- gorge,
- gouge,
- highway robbery,
- hold up,
- holdup,
- hyperbolize,
- hypercathexis,
- hyperemia,
- involve,
- jam,
- jam-pack,
- lay it on,
- load with ornament,
- loan-sharking,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- ornament,
- overassessment,
- overbrimming,
- overburden,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overestimate,
- overfeed,
- overfill,
- overflow,
- overfreight,
- overfullness,
- overlade,
- overlay,
- overload,
- overpaint,
- overpraise,
- overprice,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overspill,
- overstate,
- overstress,
- overstuff,
- overtax,
- overweigh,
- overweight,
- pack,
- pad,
- pile it on,
- plethora,
- profiteer,
- puff,
- repletion,
- satiate,
- satiety,
- saturate,
- saturation,
- screw,
- shylocking,
- skin,
- soak,
- stick,
- sting,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- stuff,
- supercharge,
- supersaturate,
- supersaturation,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- swindle,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tout,
- travesty,
- trick out,
- usury,
- varnish,
- victimize
- afterthought,
- armed robbery,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- asportation,
- assault and robbery,
- banditry,
- bank robbery,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bureaucratic delay,
- cattle lifting,
- cattle stealing,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- constriction,
- cramp,
- dead time,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detainment,
- detention,
- double take,
- drag,
- dragging,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- exploitation,
- extortion,
- fixation,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gain,
- halt,
- hampering,
- hang-up,
- heist,
- highway robbery,
- hijacking,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- hysteresis,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interim,
- interruption,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- loan-sharking,
- logjam,
- minus acceleration,
- moratorium,
- mugging,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- output lag,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pocket picking,
- process lag,
- purse snatching,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- repression,
- reprieve,
- resistance,
- respite,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- setback,
- shylocking,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowness,
- slowup,
- squeeze,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stickup,
- stickup job,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- surcharge,
- suspension,
- throughput,
- tie-up,
- time constants,
- time lag,
- time lead,
- usury,
- wait
- employment
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- the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"
- the act of giving someone a job
- the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city" related words >
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- active use,
- activism,
- activities,
- activity,
- affair,
- affairs,
- appliance,
- application,
- appointment,
- assignment,
- attendance,
- bag,
- behavior,
- berth,
- bespeaking,
- billet,
- booking,
- briefing,
- business,
- calling,
- commerce,
- concern,
- concernment,
- consumption,
- craft,
- dirty work,
- disposition,
- doing,
- donkeywork,
- drudgery,
- employ,
- engagement,
- engaging,
- enlistment,
- enrollment,
- enterprise,
- exercise,
- exercising,
- exertion,
- exploitation,
- fag,
- fatigue,
- function,
- functioning,
- gig,
- good use,
- grind,
- handiwork,
- handling,
- handwork,
- hard usage,
- hard use,
- hire,
- hiring,
- ill use,
- implementation,
- incumbency,
- industry,
- interest,
- job,
- labor,
- lick,
- lick of work,
- line,
- livelihood,
- lookout,
- management,
- manipulation,
- manual labor,
- matter,
- metier,
- ministration,
- ministry,
- mission,
- misuse,
- moil,
- moonlighting,
- movements,
- occupation,
- office,
- opening,
- operation,
- operations,
- peonage,
- place,
- play,
- position,
- post,
- practice,
- praxis,
- preengagement,
- profession,
- purpose,
- pursuit,
- racket,
- rat race,
- recruitment,
- reservation,
- retaining,
- retainment,
- rough usage,
- scut work,
- second job,
- serfdom,
- service,
- servitium,
- servitorship,
- servitude,
- situation,
- skill,
- slavery,
- spadework,
- station,
- stroke,
- stroke of work,
- sweat,
- swing,
- taking on,
- task,
- tendance,
- tenure,
- thing,
- tiresome work,
- toil,
- trade,
- travail,
- treadmill,
- undertaking,
- usage,
- use,
- using,
- using up,
- utilization,
- vacancy,
- vocation,
- work,
- working,
- workings,
- wrong use
- manipulation
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- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous" related words >
- accounting,
- action,
- agency,
- anal intercourse,
- analysis,
- artifice,
- authority,
- autoeroticism,
- automatic electronic navigation,
- bear raid,
- behind-the-scenes influence,
- bestiality,
- braking,
- buggery,
- bull raid,
- cabal,
- caressing,
- collusion,
- command,
- complicity,
- complot,
- computation,
- conduct,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- control,
- coordination,
- corner,
- corner in,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- cunnilingus,
- deep-laid plot,
- devices,
- direction,
- driving,
- employment,
- engineering,
- execution,
- exercise,
- expedients,
- exploitation,
- fact distribution,
- feeling,
- fellatio,
- fellation,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- fingering,
- forecasts,
- frame-up,
- friction,
- frottage,
- functioning,
- game,
- governance,
- government,
- guidance,
- hand job,
- handling,
- husbandry,
- influence,
- inspection,
- intrigue,
- irrumation,
- lead,
- leading,
- little game,
- machination,
- management,
- managery,
- managing,
- maneuvering,
- maneuvers,
- masturbation,
- monopoly,
- nonlinear calibrations,
- occupation,
- onanism,
- operancy,
- operation,
- oral-genital stimulation,
- ordering,
- output measurement,
- palpation,
- pederasty,
- performance,
- performing,
- petting,
- pilotage,
- plot,
- plotting,
- political influence,
- practice,
- pressure,
- processing,
- raid,
- record keeping,
- regulation,
- responsibility,
- rigging,
- rubbing,
- running,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- self-abuse,
- sodomy,
- steerage,
- steering,
- stratagem,
- stroking,
- supersonic flow detection,
- tactical maneuvers,
- tactics,
- the conn,
- the helm,
- the wheel,
- touching,
- trick,
- underplot,
- using,
- utilization,
- wash sale,
- washing,
- web of intrigue,
- wire-pulling,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- operation
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- the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
- a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"
- process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determine its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
- the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation" related words >
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- acting,
- action,
- activism,
- activity,
- adventure,
- affair,
- amphibious operations,
- amputation,
- anastomotic operation,
- appliance,
- application,
- attempt,
- behavior,
- bloodless operation,
- blow,
- bringing to fruition,
- business,
- business deal,
- campaign,
- capital operation,
- combined operations,
- commercial transaction,
- commitment,
- compensating operation,
- contract,
- control,
- corneal transplant,
- coup,
- crescent operation,
- deal,
- dealings,
- deed,
- direction,
- doing,
- doings,
- dry run,
- duty,
- effective,
- effectuation,
- efficacious,
- effort,
- elective operation,
- emergency operation,
- employment,
- end use,
- endeavor,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- excision,
- execution,
- exercise,
- exercising,
- exertion,
- exploit,
- exploitation,
- exploratory operation,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- fenestration operation,
- fluid operations,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gest,
- go,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handling,
- heart transplant,
- immediate purpose,
- in effect,
- in force,
- interval operation,
- job,
- kidney transplant,
- logistics,
- major operation,
- management,
- managing,
- maneuver,
- maneuvers,
- manipulation,
- measure,
- military operations,
- minor operation,
- minor operations,
- mission,
- motion,
- move,
- movement,
- movements,
- negotiation,
- obligation,
- occupation,
- office,
- operating,
- operational,
- operational purpose,
- operations,
- operative,
- organ transplant,
- organ transplantation,
- overproduction,
- overseas operations,
- overt act,
- package deal,
- palliative operation,
- passage,
- performance,
- plan,
- play,
- practice,
- praxis,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- production,
- productiveness,
- program,
- project,
- proposition,
- purpose,
- radical operation,
- realization,
- removal,
- res gestae,
- resection,
- role,
- running,
- section,
- staff work,
- step,
- stroke,
- stunt,
- surgical intervention,
- surgical operation,
- surgical technique,
- swing,
- task,
- the knife,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- transplant,
- turn,
- ultimate purpose,
- undertaking,
- use,
- using,
- utilization,
- venture,
- war game,
- war plans,
- work,
- working,
- workings,
- works
- working
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- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity; "discussed the working draft of a peace treaty"; "they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects"
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something; "the party has a working majority in the House"; "a working knowledge of Spanish" related words >
- accomplishment,
- acetification,
- acidification,
- acidulation,
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- agency,
- alive,
- alkalization,
- answer,
- ascertainment,
- at it,
- at work,
- banausic,
- barmy,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- breadwinning,
- businesslike,
- busy,
- carbonation,
- catalysis,
- chemicalization,
- clearing up,
- commercial,
- conduct,
- contour plowing,
- cracking,
- cultivating,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- denouement,
- determination,
- diastatic,
- direction,
- disentanglement,
- doing,
- dressing,
- driving,
- drudging,
- dynamic,
- electrolysis,
- employed,
- employment,
- end,
- end result,
- engaged,
- enzymic,
- execution,
- exercise,
- explanation,
- exploitation,
- fallowing,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fermenting,
- finding,
- finding-out,
- full of business,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- furrowing,
- going,
- going on,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- handling,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- hardworking,
- harrowing,
- hoeing,
- hydrogenation,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in harness,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- interpretation,
- isomerism,
- issue,
- laboring,
- leavening,
- listing,
- live,
- management,
- manipulation,
- materialistic,
- metamerism,
- metamerization,
- moneymaking,
- movements,
- nitration,
- occupation,
- occupied,
- on duty,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the run,
- ongoing,
- operancy,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- operative,
- outcome,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- pegging,
- performance,
- performing,
- phosphatization,
- play,
- plodding,
- plowing,
- plugging,
- polymerism,
- polymerization,
- position isomerism,
- practical,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- prosaic,
- pruning,
- raising,
- realistic,
- reason,
- reduction,
- resolution,
- resolving,
- responsibility,
- result,
- riddling,
- running,
- saturization,
- serving,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- solution,
- solving,
- sorting out,
- steering,
- straining,
- striving,
- struggling,
- sweating,
- swing,
- thinning,
- tied up,
- tilling,
- toiling,
- unraveling,
- unriddling,
- unscrambling,
- unspinning,
- untangling,
- untwisting,
- unweaving,
- upshot,
- using,
- utilitarian,
- utilization,
- weeding,
- work,
- workaday,
- workday,
- working-out,
- workings,
- yeasty
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