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extractive

[ ik-strak-tiv ]

adjective

  1. tending or serving to extract, or based upon extraction:

    coal, oil, copper, and other extractive industries.

  2. capable of being extracted, as from the earth:

    extractive fuels.

  3. of, relating to, or involving extraction:

    extractive surgery.

  4. of or of the nature of an extract.


noun

  1. something extracted.
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Other Word Forms

  • ԴDze·ٰt adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of extractive1

First recorded in 1590–1600; extract + -ive
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Example Sentences

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I don’t see a way out for Alice Coltrane other than through the extractive and back into the quiet.

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Among other things, the mandate’s drafters imagine a Christian nationalist state in which our legal and other social institutions are aligned with fundamentalist Christian dogma, a social hierarchy built around patriarchy and white supremacy, and an economy that is extractive and heavily stratified in structure.

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"It has become clear to me in the last 10 years that the influence of money and the power of the billionaire class, the power of the tech industry and all those extractive things like oil and gas and so on, have a much deeper effect on the world than I had thought," he said.

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This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel brings nuance to communities that have been ravaged by extractive capitalism and then shamed for their victimization.

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Dozens wrote a letter decrying the measure for rolling back protections for endangered species and removing accountability against “extractive industries.”

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