The meaning of EXTRACTIVE is of, relating to, or involving extraction. How to use extractive in a sentence.

Cash crops are always "extractive" and tend to lower the overall fertility of the farm. Banks have found it is easier and quicker to make money by being extractive and predatory.

Extractive definition: tending or serving to extract, or based upon extraction.. See examples of EXTRACTIVE used in a sentence.

Define extractive. extractive synonyms, extractive pronunciation, extractive translation, English dictionary definition of extractive. adj. 1. Used in or obtained by extraction.

tending or serving to extract, or based upon extraction coal, oil, copper, and other extractive industries

Definition of extractive adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word extractive, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.