misexploit

present singular third person misexploits · participle present misexploiting · participle past misexploited · past misexploited

1. To exploit wrongly.

   Following their individual profit incentives, fishermen may be led collectively to misexploit and overexploit a stock, or even to destroy it.

   1980, Peter N. Nemetz, Resource Policy: International Perspectives, page 126

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   At last, you will be soothed in saying that you exploit us, in the healthy sense of the word, because right now, we are not even exploited in the unhealthy sense of the word, but simply killed as it is actually impossible to misexploit the Indian people.

   1974, Kanatha, page 7

   Now on adding of a single gene to it, the entire variety is claimed by some other body as if it is its own property and is attempting to exorbitantly economically misexploit at the cost of Indian Agriculture.

   2005, Sanata Mahetā, Bt Cotton: A Painful Episode : Need for Thoughtful Policy, page 184