exploitation
Example Sentences
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Just over a week later, Cambodian authorities took into custody Ly Kuong, 49, a Cambodian casino and real-estate tycoon, and charged him with fraud, money laundering and exploitation of illegally recruited workers.
"Both to protect these children and their potential victims, the government is taking strong action against this type of cynical exploitation," he added.
From BBC
Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson rejected that plan, saying it would perpetuate the whales' exploitation.
From Barron's
A metaphor of L.A.’s past immortality and exploitation after World War II, the crime has fascinated novelists, filmmakers and countless true crime writers.
From Los Angeles Times
It also created the conditions that made massive fraud and exploitation inevitable.
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