Then we went after the oceans the great oceanic commons and we created laws and regulations that would allow countries to claim a certain amount of water outside their coastal limits for exploitation.
General Butlers services were also in demand in the United States in the 1930s as president Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to relieve the misery of the depression through public enterprise and to offer regulation on corporate exploitation and misdeeds.
(n) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful, Syn. development, Example:the development of Alaskan resources; the exploitation of copper deposits
(n) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly), Syn. victimization, victimisation, using, Example:capitalistic exploitation of the working class; paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization
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