Definitions

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  • noun One who is exploited.

Etymologies

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exploit +‎ -ee

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Examples

  • While some exploitative transactions are harmful to the exploitee, we often call exploitative cases in which the exploitee seems to gain from the transaction.

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

  • A paternalistic argument could not justify interfering with exploitative transactions if the exploitative transaction is advantageous to the exploitee and if interference is not likely to result in a transaction that is more beneficial to B.

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

  • It might be thought that exploitation (at least when it is morally objectionable) is confined to cases in which the exploitee is less well-off than the exploiter.

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

  • If we were to assume, for the sake of argument, that the word exploitation is best limited to cases in which the exploitee is harmed, nothing would have changed.

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

  • As our definitional survey indicated, some commentators maintain that exploitation resembles a zero-sum game, that the exploiter gains what the exploitee loses.

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

  • He can easily walk away from the transaction, whereas the exploitee cannot.

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

  • By mutually advantageous exploitation, we refer to those cases in which the exploitee gains from the transaction as well as the exploiter.

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

  • He should have said, matching a willing exploitee with a willing exploiter.

    Ronald Maxwell: The Promise of Home 2008

  • “Exploitation necessarily involves benefits or gains of some kind to someone ¦ Exploitation resembles a zero-sum game, viz. what the exploiter gains, the exploitee loses; or, minimally, for the exploiter to gain, the exploitee must lose.”

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

  • (Tormey, 207) Others maintain that exploitation is always harmful to the exploitee, even if the gains and losses do not cancel out.

    Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008

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