geeksploitation

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noun

The practice of taking advantage of highly-motivated programmers willing to work long hours.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

noungeeksploitation (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe practice of taking advantage of highly-motivated programmers willing to work long hours.

    Finding a new job just meant driving to another office-park campus with dopey street names (Disc Drive, Resistor Road, Infinite Loop) to endure more geeksploitation in exchange for dead presidents, stock options, a flexible schedule, no dress code, and all the junk food I could eat.

    2000, Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 149

Origin

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APA

geeksploitation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geeksploitation

MLA

“geeksploitation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geeksploitation. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “geeksploitation,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geeksploitation.

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