Synset

the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
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sample sentences

"the development of Alaskan resources"
"the exploitation of copper deposits"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

exploit exploit exploit

semantic pointers

hypernym

use, usage, utilization, exercise, employment, utilisation

hyponym

land development water development, water project, water program overexploitation, overuse, overutilization, overutilisation capitalization, capitalisation commercialization, commercialisation electrification unitization, unitisation