superexploit

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ exploit.

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Verb

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

1. (transitive, sociology) To exploit (a worker) to a particularly severe degree.
   • 1991, Hillel Ticktin, The Politics of Race: Discrimination in South Africa, page 76:

     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.

Related terms

• superexploitation