搾取|さくしゅsakushu[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbexploitation; bleeding dry; squeezing dry
   雇い主やといぬしは、時ときに従業員じゅうぎょういんを搾取さくしゅする。↗

   Employers sometimes exploit their workers.
2. noun, suru verb, transitive verbmilking (e.g. a cow's teat); extracting (a liquid) through squeezing

• Synonym搾り取るしぼりとるNeutralSqueezes out juice or liquid, and figuratively wrings money from someone; 「搾取」 is a written Sino-Japanese word used mainly for exploiting labor.
• Related吸い取るすいとるNeutralDraws in liquid by sucking, or siphons off money without working for it; 「搾取」 centers on exploiting the fruits of someone's labor.
• RelatedしぼるNeutralWringing out or squeezing, also narrowing things down; 「搾取」 is a Sino-Japanese word that, apart from squeezing out juice, mainly means exploiting labor.
• Related取り立てるとりたてるNeutralCovers forcibly collecting or dunning debts, and also promoting or singling someone out; 「搾取」 stresses ongoing, long-term exploitation.
• Related絞り上げるしぼりあげるCasualColloquial: squeezing or wringing something out with full force, or wringing money from someone; also to scold harshly. 「搾取」 is the written word for exploitation.
• Relatedゆすり取るゆすりとるCasualColloquial: extorting money through threats; 「搾取」 means squeezing out the fruits of labor and need not rely on threats.
• RelatedゆするCasualColloquial: to extort or blackmail, and also to demand or press someone; 「搾取」 focuses on exploiting the fruits of labor.
• RelatedせびるCasualColloquial: pestering someone for money or extorting it; 「搾取」 covers squeezing out others' labor or juice.
• Related強請きょうせいFormalA formal written word for coercion or extortion; little used — in speech say 「ゆすり」.
• RelatedゆすりCasualA colloquial noun for blackmail or extortion, or for an extortionist, as in 「ゆすりたかり」; 「搾取」 means exploitation.
• Related脅し取るおどしとるNeutralTaking money or goods by intimidation — a criminal act; 「搾取」 means squeezing out labor's fruits or juice and need not involve intimidation.
• Antonym供与きょうよFormalFormal: providing or furnishing something to someone, as in 「便宜供与」; the opposite of 「搾取」's squeezing out.
• Antonym贈与ぞうよFormalFormal: giving money or property to someone gratuitously; stands opposite to 「搾取」.
• Antonym寄付きふNeutralDonating money or goods to a public cause; the opposite of 「搾取」's taking.

Use 「搾取」 for exploiting someone's labor, as in 「労働者を搾取する」; it originally also meant milking or squeezing out juice. For squeezing liquid or wringing money from someone, use 「搾り取る」 or 「絞る」; for extortion by threats, 「ゆする」 or 「脅し取る」; for giving, 「寄付」.

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1. 乳ちちなどをしぼってとること。草木くさき、果実かじつの汁しるなどをしぼりとること。
2. （マルクス経済学けいざいがく）生産せいさん手段しゅだんをもたない生産せいさん階級かいきゅうが生産せいさんする労働ろうどう生産物せいさんぶつのうち、その生産者せいさんしゃが社会的しゃかいてきに生存せいぞんしていくのに必要ひつような労働ろうどう生産物せいさんぶつ以上いじょうの生産物せいさんぶつを、生産せいさん手段しゅだんを所有しょゆうする非ひ生産せいさん階級かいきゅうが無償むしょうで取得しゅとくすること。
3. 他人たにんに帰属きぞくすべき権利けんりや利得りとくを不正ふせいに侵害しんがいしたり取得しゅとくしたりすること。優越ゆうえつ的てき立場たちばを乱用らんようし他人たにんを使役しえきして不当ふとうな利益りえきを得えること。人ひとを自分本位じぶんほんいに、または非ひ倫理的りんりてきに利用りようすること。