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When we talk about exploiting people, we usually mean in the sense "to take unfair advantage of something or someone so as to achieve one's own aims." (Chambers online dictionary).

Now, given that we have a situation where the parties have a distinctly uneven bargaining position, one side gets to behave in a manner that is generally seen as malicious, manipulative, and completely at odds with the manner in which we expect an ethical human being to behave, and the other side finds themselves obliged to work outside the contracted hours, for free, why do you not have a problem?

I'm not even sure why you think that the threat of losing your job and peer pressure are not forms of force.

tangible -- relationship
What a beguiling oxymoron. Which of the two words do you truly and deeply misunderstand?

tangible adj 1 able to be felt by touch. 2 able to be grasped by the mind. 3 real or definite; material.

See definition 2 genius.

Your post is modded as funny, but I wasn't sure whether your question was serious or not...

Oral...ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin oralis, from os, oris mouth

ORIENTATE IS NOT A WORD!!!!!

Perhaps you'd like to check before shouting next time: Orientate

line n. a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.

So, no, it's not. That definition is also backed up by the Chambers English dictionary.

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Proponent would be more usual in that example in UK English too. Exponent if they were doing the advocating by demonstration, so that sense one of the Chambers definition also applies:
exponent noun 1 someone able to perform some art or activity, especially skilfully. 2 someone who explains and promotes (a theory or belief, etc). 3 math a number that indicates how many times a given quantity, called the base, is to be multiplied by itself, usually denoted by a superscript number or symbol immediately after the quantity concerned, eg 64 = 6 x 6 x 6 x 6. Also called power, index.
cf. proponent noun a supporter or advocate of something; someone who argues in favour of their cause.

Chambers. Also 23 years of living in the UK, speaking British English. I'm almost native, now. ; )

Further, the OED Online, which is subscription-only I'm afraid, has no listed occurrences of mosquitoe. It lists dozens of creative spellings from the seventeenth century and earlier (like musketa, moscheto, musqueeto, muscato &c.) but no mosquitoe. How old's that printed reference you're using?

What was wrong with the way the GP and OP used it?

sarcasm

Humour

definition of spellcheck
Spellcheck actually means using a computerised spellchecker.
my grandparent's postis flamebait? C'mon!

You're going to argue about a point of the English language using Websters? HAHAHA!

Your definition doesn't match my OED. Seeing as the OED isn't available online (last time I checked), we'll reference Chambers:

Insure
Ensure

If you want to look stupid and ignorant, or want to put the wrong image in people's heads then carry on using "insure" instead of "ensure".

Moron.

You're going to argue about a point of the English language using Websters? HAHAHA!

Your definition doesn't match my OED. Seeing as the OED isn't available online (last time I checked), we'll reference Chambers:

Insure
Ensure

If you want to look stupid and ignorant, or want to put the wrong image in people's heads then carry on using "insure" instead of "ensure".

Moron.