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tending or serving to remove or take out, or based upon removal; capable of being taken out, as from the earth; of, pertaining to, or involving pulling out; of or of the nature of something pulled out or removed; something removed

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  • The rights and wrongs of America's system of class action, which gives new meaning to the term extractive industry, are properly matters for the U.S. courts and legislators.
  • The probe comes amid intensifying global scrutiny of corruption and bribery in the so-called extractive industries that generate raw materials.
  • Important as this kind of extractive activity is to the nation's well-being, of its very nature it is not nearly as labour-intensive as end product manufacturing and...
  • We don't need a short term extractive industry.
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