Definition of "exploitative" in İngilizce

adjective

1. In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something

   • We are protesting the company's exploitative policies.

2. (more generally) Of or relating to exploitation.

3. (ecology, of competition) Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.

   • This competition may be intra- or interspecific and may take the form of exploitative or interference competition. In exploitative competition, the consumption of a prey item by one individual removes it from possible consumption by another.