Commercial exploitation is a term referring to all activities used to benefit commercially from one's property.
- Examples include making property, selling it, offering it for sale, or licensing its appropriation or use.
Whether a party can commercially exploit their property depends on what kind of property it is and in what manner that property is owned.
- For example, a party is prohibited from commercially exploiting their property if it sits on wetlands without a proper permit.
In common parlance, the phrase commercial exploitation can also refer to benefiting commercially through unethical means.
[Last updated in August of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]