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USING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

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

Synonyms:

exploitation; using; victimisation; victimization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb use

Credits

 Context examples: 

No, I never heard of her using it.

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

The cumulative amount recovered extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the surface area.

(Amount Recovered Infinity Observed Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Amount Recovered Infinity Observed, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the body mass index.

(Amount Recovered Infinity Observed Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the weight.

(Amount Recovered Infinity Observed Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the weight.

(Amount Recovered Infinity Predicted Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the body mass index.

(Amount Recovered Infinity Predicted Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Amount Recovered Infinity Predicted, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the surface area.

(Amount Recovered Infinity Predicted Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

Accelerated partial-breast irradiation may be given using internal or external sources of radiation.

(Accelerated partial-breast irradiation, NCI Dictionary)