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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, victimization, victimisation, using]

Merriam Webster's

noun see victimize

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see victimize

Moby Thesaurus

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