extractive.

1. Concerned with removing raw materials or resources from their source.

2. Organized to take value from others without providing a proportionate return.

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Words that belong together

• extractive industry
• extractive activity

On the page

Extractive industries reshaped the river valley.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common.