Timeline for When a country exploits other people / countries
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| Aug 26, 2016 at 19:07 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | Interestingly, derogation is not the default inference of the noun, but only of the verb. Journalists routinely write and wrote of the exploits of athletes and of Sir Edmund Hillary's exploits in mountaineering. | |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 12:13 | comment | added | NibblyPig | Perhaps in some cases, but I think that I could say that I exploit the fact I have a big beard to dress up like Santa at Halloween. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 12:01 | comment | added | ColleenV | I do think there is a negative connotation in common usage - exploit tends to mean "use unfairly". If you had a positive sense you might want to choose a different word. "He discovered that he was an excellent fisherman and leveraged that to make a lot of money selling fish." | |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 8:16 | history | edited | NibblyPig | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 8:00 | history | answered | NibblyPig | CC BY-SA 3.0 |