superexploit

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verb

To exploit (a worker) to a particularly severe degree.

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Meanings

verbsuperexploit (third-person singular simple present superexploits, present participle superexploiting, simple past and past participle superexploited)

present singular third person superexploits · participle present superexploiting · participle past superexploited · past superexploited

  1. transitivehuman sciencesTo exploit (a worker) to a particularly severe degree.

    The difference between a superexploited black man in the US, or a superexploited Spaniard in Switzerland and a superexploited colonial worker in pre-independence Nigeria is instructive.

    1991, Hillel Ticktin, The Politics of Race: Discrimination in South Africa, page 76

Origin

From super- + exploit.

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