potential exploitation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialandexploitation
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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exploitation
noun[U]
uk/ˌek.splɔɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.splɔɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
the use of something in order to get an advantage ...
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(Definition ofpotentialandexploitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Rather than protecting groups frompotentialexploitationin research, exclusion or limited access to trial participation was seen as exploitative, harmful, and unjust.
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In some species,potentialexploitationof safe sites in fall or spring is foreseeable from what we know of dispersal and germination strategies.
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Apotentialexploitationof land in my area deeply concerns me.
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By working through an agency of the movement, such situations ofpotentialexploitationand difficulty can thus be avoided.
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Every long leaseholder is open topotentialexploitation.
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Part of the training of mediators is to be on the lookout for thepotentialexploitationof an unfair bargaining position.
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The law allowspotentialexploitationby elected members at the expense of the ratepayers.
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There was a debate about thepotentialexploitationof intervention funds if the yard were to give up its exclusive building of warships.
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They do not like the closed shop and all that it means, includingpotentialexploitationand denial of rights.
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Thepotentialexploitationof these deposits has caused some hostility which has been expressed in local politics.
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Trusting less lead to the loss of economic opportunities, trusting more leads to unnecessary vulnerabilities andpotentialexploitation.
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Interest in thepotentialexploitationof polymetallic nodules generated a great deal of activity among prospective mining consortia in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Unfortunately the media and scholars alike have remained relatively silent on the ethical concerns involving thepotentialexploitationof foreign nurses.
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Repurchase completion rates increased after companies were required to retroactively disclose their repurchase activity, the result of an effort to reduce the perceived orpotentialexploitationof public investors.
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