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• v  use or manipulate to one's advantage
• v  draw from; make good use of
• v  work excessively hard
• a  developed or used to greatest advantage
• s  of persons; taken advantage of

• Former child actors, like Alison Arngrim (Nellie from Little House on the Prairie) and Paul Peterson (Donna Reed's son) told reporters that Fanning was being exploited.
• Sebelius, 57, has deftly exploited that.
• The plots were uniform: Lee makes a vow not to fight; people close to Lee are exploited and killed; Lee kills lots of people in retaliation; Lee turns himself in for punishment.

• exploit
• work
• tap
• overwork
• ill-used
• put-upon
• used
• victimized
• victimised

• unexploited

News & Articles

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• 3 suspects arrested in modern slavery case
  A mentally disabled woman and child were "locked in rooms, forced to work all the time, threatened, beaten and injured, exploited, used as pawns to get drugs," a prosecutor says. FULL STORY
  June 19, 2013 - CNN
• Feds: NY, Va. 7-Eleven stores exploited immigrants
  Feds: NY, Va. 7-Eleven stores exploited immigrants Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 6:53 am, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 NEW YORK (AP) — Nine owners and managers of 7-Eleven stores across Long Island and in Virginia were charged Monday with making tens of millions of dollars by ...
  June 18, 2013 - Houston Chronicle
• $1 Million from Google to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation Received by the National Center for Missing & Exploited ...
  ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® today announced it has received a $1 million grant from Google, Inc. (GOOG) that will help fund its fight to stop the sexual exploitation of children.In recent years law enforcement has seen a rise in these crimes and in the past 12 months, the National Center has received more than ...
  June 18, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in Globe and Mail
  AIG exploited a huge gap in the regulatory system, there was no oversight of the financial products division,Mr. Bernanke said. "This was a hedge fund basically that was attached to a large and stable insurance company."
• Barack Obama in Editor & Publisher
  The Obama ads, which made reference to the Stonewall riots of 1969, said in part: "Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans."
• Tony Woodley in Examiner.com
  As we have seen, there is now significant danger of such a provision being exploited by politically-motivated organizations or individuals who set out only to grab headlines knowing their case has no realistic chance of a successful... Gordon Brown http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE-PFSKfa_9Cue9zTZuv_tG4sb9AQ Trend News Agency http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.trend.az/regions/world/europe/1650105.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEcSOteDv52uZEWKN7SH5kqPB1YuA Mar 5, 2010 35413 44927 exploiter Our efforts helped hold a corporate exploiter accountable, and showed what's possible when workers around the world stand together," said Tony Woodley, Unite Joint General Secretary.