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exploitation

Social medicine The taking unfair advantage of a situation or person(s). See Sexual exploitation.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

exploitation

the situation in which one organism gains at the expense of another.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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There is a point at which 401(k) "freeloading" produces an imprudent result.
Now they are a disgrace, a bunch of freeloading parasites.
Twitter Pro could include a number of perks and benefits not afforded to the freeloading customers.
Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): 'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe has said that he will not be a part of the party circuit anymore, as he does not like mingling with freeloading minor celebrities.
"Quite what a member of the royal family, best known for freeloading and playing golf, can do to help is anyone's guess."
If they think that, or the digital cameras and magazine subscriptions bought by other AMs, is intolerable freeloading, they have two options.
speak the language, they also see us as just a bunch of freeloading backpackers.
According to Sophos, many internet-enabled homes fail to properly secure their wireless connection with passwords and encryption, allowing freeloading passers-by and neighbours to steal interact access rather than paying an Internet Service Provider (ISP) for their own.
Now, Martin Schuster and his colleagues at Oregon State University in Corvallis have shown that these mutants can grow faster than their peers by freeloading on the hard work of their neighbors.
The outspoken member for Monmouth said people from overseas were "freeloading" on the health service and should have to show health insurance documents on arriving in the country.
Successful country freeloading is not really about being a parasite.
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