USING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does using mean? 

• USING (noun)
  The noun USING has 1 sense:

1. an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)

  Familiarity information: USING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• USING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

exploitation; using; victimisation; victimization

Context example:

paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization

Hypernyms ("using" is a kind of...):

mistreatment (the practice of treating (someone or something) badly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "using"):

blaxploitation (the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies))

sexploitation (the commercial exploitation of sex or sexuality or explicit sexual material)

colonialism (exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country)

Derivation:

use (seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage)

 Context examples 

"Well!" I exclaimed, using an expression of the district, "that caps the globe, however!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A system to describe the amount and spread of cancer in a patient’s body, using TNM.

(AJCC staging system, NCI Dictionary)

How long would it take him to do that, using every possible contraction?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Excuse the remark, but living among boys, I can't help using their expressions now and then.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Using them this way is not legal or safe.

(Anabolic Steroids, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

"What is that which you are using?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Had she been using any thing in particular?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

By using a few hours in each day, which would otherwise be wasted, you may hope to have excellent cravats in middle life.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt that she was infinitely dearer to me than any other woman in the world, and that I was using her infamously.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They began by using him as a short-cut, a convenience; now he has made himself an essential.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)