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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of victimise.

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Examples

  • Peter Morici, a former chief economist at the US International Trade Commission, said Chinese imports were reaching the US at less than the cost of the materials in them: "It's really a beggar-thy-neighbour policy [by China] that victimises trading partners."

    US politicians threaten trade war with China Andrew Clark in New York 2010

  • Ferguson has long felt the FA victimises United, a view he has held for well over a decade, describing the disciplinary department as a "dysfunctional unit", whereas the club's legal adviser, Graham Bean, has accused the FA of acting "like a communist state".

    David Gill slates FA colleagues for Manchester United 'victimisation' 2011

  • Ferguson has long felt the FA victimises United, a view he has held for well over a decade, describing the disciplinary department as a "dysfunctional unit", whereas the club's legal adviser, Graham Bean, has accused the FA of acting "like a communist state".

    David Gill slates FA colleagues for Manchester United 'victimisation' 2011

  • So it deliberately oppresses, enslaves and victimises its own palestinian people because they know only too well that western media will lap it up and blame Israel.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Show Me Love, a sort of Swedish Skins – misbehaving teenagers – in which the most popular girl in the year first victimises the class lesbian then falls in love with her, is good.

    Recenter Reading Roundup « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009

  • I mean, a corrupt state with poor law is still a corrupt state with poor law if its market is behind a trade barrier - and national sovereignty doesn't mean much if the state systematically victimises the vulnerable.

    Real World Economics -- Protectionism Is Not Always Wrong Patrick Vessey 2008

  • What we do know, because history tells us this over and over again, is that appeasement invariably brings not peace but war; and that when the world favours aggressors and further victimises their victims, countless more foot-soldiers are recruited to the cause of violence.

    Peace in our time 2008

  • What we do know, because history tells us this over and over again, is that appeasement invariably brings not peace but war; and that when the world favours aggressors and further victimises their victims, countless more foot-soldiers are recruited to the cause of violence.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Why is it always some vague and nebulous and consequently unaccountable system, man, that victimises you while I, as a fairly nonnebulous white male, a specific one, with a name and an adress, make off with the metaphorical loot?

    The male privilege checklist 2004

  • War prejudice indeed desires one kind of story only, and victimises those who give it what it does not want.

    The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship

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