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[syn: exploitation, victimization, victimisation, using]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
victimization
n 1: adversity resulting from being made a victim; "his
victimization infuriated him"
2: an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them
unfairly); "capitalistic exploitation of the working class";
"paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of
victimization" [syn: exploitation, victimization,
victimisation, using]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "victimization":
McCarthyism, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing,
calculated deception, circumvention, conning, deceiving, deception,
deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dupery,
enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, fallaciousness,
fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling,
hallucination, harassment, harrying, hoodwinking, hounding,
illusion, kidding, mirage, oppression, outwitting, overreaching,
persecution, phantasm, putting on, red-baiting, self-deception,
snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge,
swindling, tormenting, trickiness, tricking, vision,
willful misconception, wishful thinking, witch-hunt,
witch-hunting