exploitation

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• /ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn̩/
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Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”). By surface analysis, exploit + -ation.

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِسْتِغْلَال (istiḡlāl) — act of exploiting
• Armenian: շահագործում (šahagorcum) — act of exploiting
• Azerbaijani: istismar — act of exploiting
• Belarusian: эксплуата́цыя (ekspluatácyja) — act of exploiting
• Bulgarian: експлоата́ция (eksploatácija) — act of exploiting
• Catalan: explotació — act of exploiting
• Chinese Mandarin: 剝削 /剥削 (bōxuē, bōxuè) — act of exploiting
• Chinese Mandarin: 開發 /开发 (kāifā) — act of exploiting
• Czech: využití — act of exploiting
• Czech: vykořisťování — act of exploiting
• Danish: udbytning — act of exploiting
• Dutch: uitbuiting — act of exploiting
• Dutch: exploitatie — act of exploiting
• Dutch: uitbaten — act of exploiting
• Estonian: ekspluateerimine — act of exploiting
• Finnish: riisto — act of exploiting
• French: exploitation — act of exploiting
• Georgian: ექსპლუატაცია (eksṗluaṭacia) — act of exploiting
• German: Ausbeutung — act of exploiting
• Greek: εκμετάλλευση (ekmetállefsi) — act of exploiting
• Hindi: शोषण (śoṣaṇ) — act of exploiting
• Hungarian: kizsákmányolás — act of exploiting
• Irish: dúshaothrú — act of exploiting
• Italian: sfruttamento — act of exploiting
• Italian: valorizzazione — act of exploiting
• Japanese: 搾取 (sakushu) — act of exploiting
• Korean: 착취 (chakchwi) — act of exploiting
• Macedonian: експлоатација (eksploatacija) — act of exploiting
• Malayalam: ചൂഷണം (cūṣaṇaṁ) — act of exploiting
• Persian: انتفاع (entefâ') — act of exploiting
• Persian: بهرهبرداری (bahre-bardâri) — act of exploiting
• Persian: استثمار (estesmâr) — act of exploiting
• Polish: wykorzystanie — act of exploiting
• Polish: wyzysk — act of exploiting
• Polish: spożytkowanie — act of exploiting
• Polish: eksploatacja — act of exploiting
• Portuguese: exploração — act of exploiting
• Romanian: exploatare — act of exploiting
• Romanian: exploatație — act of exploiting
• Russian: эксплуата́ция (ekspluatácija) — act of exploiting
• Russian: испо́льзование (ispólʹzovanije) — act of exploiting
• Russian: примене́ние (primenénije) — act of exploiting
• Slovak: využitie — act of exploiting
• Slovak: vykorisťovanie — act of exploiting
• Spanish: explotación — act of exploiting
• Swahili: unyonyaji — act of exploiting
• Swedish: exploatering — act of exploiting
• Tagalog: panghuhuthot — act of exploiting
• Tajik: интифоъ (intifo') — act of exploiting
• Tajik: истисмор (istismor) — act of exploiting
• Turkish: istismar — act of exploiting
• Turkish: sömürü — act of exploiting
• Ukrainian: експлуата́ція (ekspluatácija) — act of exploiting
• Ukrainian: ви́користання (výkorystannja) — act of exploiting
• Ukrainian: використа́ння (vykorystánnja) — act of exploiting
• Uzbek: foydalanish — act of exploiting
• Uzbek: ekspluatatsiya — act of exploiting