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1. (DOD only) Taking full advantage of success in military operations, following up initial gains, and making permanent the temporary effects already achieved. 2. Taking full advantage of any information that has come to hand for tactical, operational, or strategic purposes. 3. An offensive operation that usually follows a successful attack and is designed to disorganize the enemy in depth. See also attack; pursuit. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
exploitation noun 1. misuse, abuse, manipulation, imposition, using, ill-treatment the exploitation of working women 2. capitalization, utilization, using to good advantage, trading upon the exploitation of the famine by local politicians Translations exploitation [ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃən] n (pejorative) [people] → exploitation f [resource] → exploitation f commercial exploitation exploitation n (= unfair treatment, of workers) → Ausbeutung f; (of friend, sb’s credulity, good nature, weakness) → Ausnutzung f (= utilization, of land, natural resources, technology) → Nutzung f; (of coal seam) → Ausbeutung f; (of talent, situation, opportunity) → Ausnutzung f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We should remember that viewing the colonized as perpetual victims (and thus denying them agencies as historical actors) could be just as problematic as denying or rationalizing the atrocities and exploitations visited on them by the colonizers. The three Governments balancing of Penan human and land rights with economy-building commercial timber exploitations becomes crucial. In Ong's Fixer Chao, the American dream is exposed as the achievement of serialized mutual exploitations where ethnic Americans, native- and foreign-born, become successful by exploiting their own. |
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