Victimization

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}, {victimisation},
           {using}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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