Definition of exploit in English:

exploit

verb ɪkˈsplɔɪtɛkˈsplɔɪtɪkˈsplɔɪt

[with object]

1Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)
500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology
Example sentencesExamples
- Whelks are widely distributed, but are commercially exploited in only some regions.
- The coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources.
- Can we stop over-using and exploiting the world's resources?
- Regions in the east are able to exploit natural resources such as forestry to provide for prison labour.
- Currently, manufacturers are exploiting the natural resources with very low efficiency.
- These boreal forest warblers all exploited that resource while it was abundant.
- Services that exploit the higher bandwidth available with 3G have to be marketed to consumers.
- Some other countries exploiting their mineral resources are setting aside money to prepare for the day when the oil runs out.
- It also pays special attention to exploiting marine resources and marketing marine products.
- It claims entitlement to an unspecific open-ended incentive derived from exploiting a natural resource.
- This means pushing to the limit their traditional food crops as well as their already over exploited marine resources.
- We are looking at exploiting other natural resources in the area, such as gold, such as phosphates, such as bauxite.
- And there are countless bacteria out there, just waiting to be commercially exploited.
- On the coast, the maritime villas that exploited the fishing resources of the lagoons and ponds still played a central role.
- With 13.3 million inhabitants in 1600, Italy's forest resources were exploited to their limit.
- The interim government believes it can double oil production by 2010 if it exploits existing facilities and develops new fields.
- And unless we are careful while exploiting this resource, we might end up depleting it to unsustainable levels.
- One of the primary objectives of modern economic theory and free markets is to exploit finite resources at ever-quicker rates.
- Still it is a national resource and should be exploited to the full.
- He said that it was like the old colonial attitude of exploiting a resource in an area but bringing the benefits back home to the ‘motherland’.
Synonyms
utilize, make use of, put to use, use, use to good advantage, turn/put to good use, make the most of, capitalize on, benefit from, turn to account, draw on
profit from/by, make capital out of
informal cash in on, milk
2Make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand.
the company was exploiting a legal loophole
Example sentencesExamples
- Spam is one of the areas that the underworld of the internet are successfully exploiting for commercial gain.
- He feels commercial interests are exploiting the situation and selling parents the idea that they can buy things to substitute for time with their children.
- They are cynically exploiting the fears and concerns that exist over the question of the immigrants.
- Worse still, when disasters occur they are ruthlessly exploited to advance the globalisation agenda.
- With five minutes left the visitors had exploited the situation to score two converted tries to cut RI's lead to eight points.
- Class hatreds were exploited on an unparalleled scale.
- Software defects can be exploited on scale far larger than defects in physical products.
- The nationwide store has ruthlessly exploited a legal loophole.
- Many private developers exploit the situation where the demand exceeds available space.
- I will not exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.
- "They have created the conditions that could be exploited by the terrorists, " he declared.
- That would eliminate some of the loopholes exploited by large, wealthy factory farms.
- Instead, by exploiting a tragic situation, I think they are trying to score cheap miles, and I firmly believe this will backfire in their faces.
- There is nothing, it seems, that can't be exploited for political profit.
- Sporting activities must be organised so that they are for leisure and not exploited for profit or voyeurism.
- These people also know how to exploit legal loopholes and can often avoid official inspections.
- Employers have exploited the situation to end strikes and press ahead with plans to cut jobs and working conditions.
- The security hole could be exploited by malicious hackers or a future internet worm.
- The worm exploits a vulnerability in the software which was first warned about in May 2000.
- Study your opponent, keep your defenses up and systematically exploit weaknesses.
1. 2.1 Benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them.
  these workers are at particular risk of being exploited in the workplace
  Example sentencesExamples
  You are British workers, also exploited by the capitalists.
  To prevent workers being exploited, employee rights have had to be translated into eight different languages.
  Just because we can't see people being exploited, doesn't mean we aren't supporting this unjust system.
  I feel sorry for the elderly who are exploited in this manner.
  The capitalist system exploits people everywhere.
  Another participant focused on the manner in which men exploited women at the work place.
  He yesterday lashed out at his treatment by the media, implicitly accusing them of exploiting him for financial gain.
  Politicians have exploited these unfortunate people for their own ends.
  Motorists are being exploited primarily for revenue purposes, rather than for traffic safety reasons.
  The illegal status lets employers get away with exploiting the workers through lesser wages.
  Nobody complained that the international capitalists were exploiting the workers.
  Then we have some members saying to us that a small number of employers are exploiting their workers.
  The salt pan workers are exploited and often suffer from poor health but get no protection since it is an unorganised industry.
  The effect was to make it easier for the ruling class to exploit the peasants who formed the bulk of the population.
  The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century.
  Both groups are exploiting illegal immigrants for profit.
  Believed to have about 350 members, they see the EU as exploiting ordinary people and are against a European Constitution.
  We know he has made more than £100,000 from exploiting these people, but we suspect he has made a lot more than this.
  Thirdly, the reason why the capitalist can exploit workers is simply because they have power over them.
  There have been numerous complaints of outdated labour laws leading to unscrupulous employers exploiting workers.
  Synonyms
  take advantage of, make use of, abuse, impose on, prey on, play on, misuse, ill-treat, bleed, suck dry, squeeze, wring, enslave, treat unfairly, withhold rights from
  manipulate, cheat, swindle, fleece, victimize, live off the backs of
  informal walk (all) over, take for a ride, put one over on, cash in on, rip off

noun ˈɛksplɔɪtˈɛkˌsplɔɪt

1A bold or daring feat.
despite a series of colourful exploits, his agents obtained little intelligence of value
Example sentencesExamples
- This reality series captures the exploits and escapades of life on the road with the world's most unusual troupe of performers, The Jim Rose Circus.
- Astoundingly, death did not come sooner and through different means, given her daring exploits in America's leading big tops.
- This series looks at the exploits of six great Gaelic football and hurling teams beginning with the Down football team of 1960 / 61.
- Here, their daring exploits will never be forgotten.
- McRae remains one of rallying's most insistent draws, fans still flushed by thoughts of his daring exploits behind the wheel.
- In 1999 he realized that, for all his daring exploits, he had been keeping his back turned on the biggest adventure of all: building a company from scratch.
- History is sprinkled with tales of the exploits, achievements and leadership of young adults, even teenagers.
- It has every thing the TV audience need, dramatic scenery, heroic exploits, a stage of passion and colour.
- Here I was transported back to the mid 18th century, reading about the exploits of Southern African adventurers, when, lo and behold, our great city gets a mention.
- In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
- Though they claim he supports the insurgency because of his ideological opposition to the occupation, they soon lapse into talk of daring criminal exploits.
- Only the movies and the daring exploits of aviation's record seekers seemed to offer any escape from the harsh realities of daily life.
- They romanticized aviation and grabbed the headlines with their daring exploits.
- Florence Nightingale is widely hailed as the founder of today's nursing profession, especially for her exploits in the Crimean War.
- The exploits, adventures and successes of the Mayo ladies over the past few years have unquestionably raised the profile of the sport.
- How did his wife feel about his adventurous exploits in the air after yesterday?
- Although he looks back at his own daring exploits with remarkable detachment, he realises how captivating they are to other people.
- In all the years I have been undertaking various exploits and adventures in numerous countries around the globe there is one thing I have never done.
- It was from here that Captain James Cook, a local lad, set sail around the globe, inflaming every schoolboy's passion for adventure with his daring exploits.
- At the same time, they were, and still are, fascinated by the exploits of secret agents and counterspies.
Synonyms
feat, deed, act, adventure, stunt, escapade, manoeuvre, enterprise, undertaking, move
achievement, accomplishment, attainment, triumph
(exploits) handiwork
informal lark, caper
2A software tool designed to take advantage of a flaw in a computer system, typically for malicious purposes such as installing malware.
if someone you don't know tweets you a link, it's either spam, an exploit, or probably both
Example sentencesExamples
- Once the website is visited, the modified exploits will affect the system software and additional malware will get deployed.
- The compromised website hosted an exploit which then allowed malware to be installed on these laptops.
- Several web sites have already been disseminating malware using this exploit, triggering it with a mixture of HTML, JavaScript and Flash.
- A hacker finds a software exploit and you have to change all your passwords, or your personal data gets leaked.
- No matter what platform you're running, security software will help remove known exploits and block newly emerging ones.
- Exploit bundles are usually installed in hosting servers.

Derivatives

exploitable

adjective ɪkˈsplɔɪtəb(ə)lɛkˈsplɔɪtəb(ə)l

He said: ‘It's absolutely outrageous, it is feeding on people who are exploitable.’
Example sentencesExamples
- This leaves a narrow exploitable window of opportunity.
- If there is exploitable gas, then they will speak to us again in due course about bringing it ashore.
- Money is raised chiefly by publicising highly exploitable incidents, often of lawbreaking.
- Yet entrepreneurs and corporations are now developing ingenious ways to turn these natural commons into exploitable property.

exploiter

noun ɪkˈsplɔɪtəɪkˈsplɔɪdər

There also seems to be no shortage of news outlets willing to make companies out to be the evil exploiters of labor and customers - after all, it sells newspapers.
Example sentencesExamples
- With this concern have come the unending droves of promoters, frauds, and exploiters who traditionally prey upon the naive and trusting.
- The symbols and culture of the middle class have proliferated to the point that many individuals are both the exploited and the exploiters.
- A vast majority of people supported his government's policy, and ‘only a handful of exploiters are opposing a decision that has been taken in the best national and international interest’, he asserted.
- For much of the film it is hard to see him as anything but a shallow, pretentious exploiter thinking only of his own pleasure.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French esploit (noun), based on Latin explicare 'unfold' (see explicate). The early notion of 'success, progress' gave rise to the sense 'attempt to capture', 'military expedition', hence the current sense of the noun. Verb senses (mid 19th century) are from modern French exploiter.

Rhymes

adroit, dacoit, Detroit, doit, droit, maladroit, quoit

Definition of exploit in US English:

exploit

verbɪkˈsplɔɪtikˈsploit

[with object]

1Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)
500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology
Example sentencesExamples
- Currently, manufacturers are exploiting the natural resources with very low efficiency.
- Still it is a national resource and should be exploited to the full.
- It also pays special attention to exploiting marine resources and marketing marine products.
- The interim government believes it can double oil production by 2010 if it exploits existing facilities and develops new fields.
- With 13.3 million inhabitants in 1600, Italy's forest resources were exploited to their limit.
- It claims entitlement to an unspecific open-ended incentive derived from exploiting a natural resource.
- Whelks are widely distributed, but are commercially exploited in only some regions.
- Some other countries exploiting their mineral resources are setting aside money to prepare for the day when the oil runs out.
- And there are countless bacteria out there, just waiting to be commercially exploited.
- And unless we are careful while exploiting this resource, we might end up depleting it to unsustainable levels.
- He said that it was like the old colonial attitude of exploiting a resource in an area but bringing the benefits back home to the ‘motherland’.
- On the coast, the maritime villas that exploited the fishing resources of the lagoons and ponds still played a central role.
- We are looking at exploiting other natural resources in the area, such as gold, such as phosphates, such as bauxite.
- One of the primary objectives of modern economic theory and free markets is to exploit finite resources at ever-quicker rates.
- Can we stop over-using and exploiting the world's resources?
- Regions in the east are able to exploit natural resources such as forestry to provide for prison labour.
- This means pushing to the limit their traditional food crops as well as their already over exploited marine resources.
- These boreal forest warblers all exploited that resource while it was abundant.
- Services that exploit the higher bandwidth available with 3G have to be marketed to consumers.
- The coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources.
Synonyms
utilize, make use of, put to use, use, use to good advantage, put to good use, turn to good use, make the most of, capitalize on, benefit from, turn to account, draw on
1. 1.1 Use (a situation or person) in an unfair or selfish way.
  the company was exploiting a legal loophole
  accusations that he exploited a wealthy patient
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sporting activities must be organised so that they are for leisure and not exploited for profit or voyeurism.
  I will not exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.
  That would eliminate some of the loopholes exploited by large, wealthy factory farms.
  Worse still, when disasters occur they are ruthlessly exploited to advance the globalisation agenda.
  The worm exploits a vulnerability in the software which was first warned about in May 2000.
  He feels commercial interests are exploiting the situation and selling parents the idea that they can buy things to substitute for time with their children.
  These people also know how to exploit legal loopholes and can often avoid official inspections.
  Spam is one of the areas that the underworld of the internet are successfully exploiting for commercial gain.
  Class hatreds were exploited on an unparalleled scale.
  With five minutes left the visitors had exploited the situation to score two converted tries to cut RI's lead to eight points.
  Many private developers exploit the situation where the demand exceeds available space.
  "They have created the conditions that could be exploited by the terrorists, " he declared.
  Instead, by exploiting a tragic situation, I think they are trying to score cheap miles, and I firmly believe this will backfire in their faces.
  Employers have exploited the situation to end strikes and press ahead with plans to cut jobs and working conditions.
  The nationwide store has ruthlessly exploited a legal loophole.
  Study your opponent, keep your defenses up and systematically exploit weaknesses.
  There is nothing, it seems, that can't be exploited for political profit.
  Software defects can be exploited on scale far larger than defects in physical products.
  They are cynically exploiting the fears and concerns that exist over the question of the immigrants.
  The security hole could be exploited by malicious hackers or a future internet worm.
2. 1.2 Benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them.
  making money does not always mean exploiting others
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then we have some members saying to us that a small number of employers are exploiting their workers.
  To prevent workers being exploited, employee rights have had to be translated into eight different languages.
  Motorists are being exploited primarily for revenue purposes, rather than for traffic safety reasons.
  Thirdly, the reason why the capitalist can exploit workers is simply because they have power over them.
  You are British workers, also exploited by the capitalists.
  The effect was to make it easier for the ruling class to exploit the peasants who formed the bulk of the population.
  Nobody complained that the international capitalists were exploiting the workers.
  He yesterday lashed out at his treatment by the media, implicitly accusing them of exploiting him for financial gain.
  Just because we can't see people being exploited, doesn't mean we aren't supporting this unjust system.
  Politicians have exploited these unfortunate people for their own ends.
  We know he has made more than £100,000 from exploiting these people, but we suspect he has made a lot more than this.
  I feel sorry for the elderly who are exploited in this manner.
  The salt pan workers are exploited and often suffer from poor health but get no protection since it is an unorganised industry.
  Both groups are exploiting illegal immigrants for profit.
  Another participant focused on the manner in which men exploited women at the work place.
  The illegal status lets employers get away with exploiting the workers through lesser wages.
  Believed to have about 350 members, they see the EU as exploiting ordinary people and are against a European Constitution.
  The capitalist system exploits people everywhere.
  The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century.
  There have been numerous complaints of outdated labour laws leading to unscrupulous employers exploiting workers.
  Synonyms
  take advantage of, make use of, abuse, impose on, prey on, play on, misuse, ill-treat, bleed, suck dry, squeeze, wring, enslave, treat unfairly, withhold rights from

nounˈɛkˌsplɔɪtˈekˌsploit

1A bold or daring feat.
the most heroic and secretive exploits of the war
Example sentencesExamples
- It has every thing the TV audience need, dramatic scenery, heroic exploits, a stage of passion and colour.
- This reality series captures the exploits and escapades of life on the road with the world's most unusual troupe of performers, The Jim Rose Circus.
- It was from here that Captain James Cook, a local lad, set sail around the globe, inflaming every schoolboy's passion for adventure with his daring exploits.
- Although he looks back at his own daring exploits with remarkable detachment, he realises how captivating they are to other people.
- Here I was transported back to the mid 18th century, reading about the exploits of Southern African adventurers, when, lo and behold, our great city gets a mention.
- McRae remains one of rallying's most insistent draws, fans still flushed by thoughts of his daring exploits behind the wheel.
- Florence Nightingale is widely hailed as the founder of today's nursing profession, especially for her exploits in the Crimean War.
- The exploits, adventures and successes of the Mayo ladies over the past few years have unquestionably raised the profile of the sport.
- Only the movies and the daring exploits of aviation's record seekers seemed to offer any escape from the harsh realities of daily life.
- How did his wife feel about his adventurous exploits in the air after yesterday?
- At the same time, they were, and still are, fascinated by the exploits of secret agents and counterspies.
- This series looks at the exploits of six great Gaelic football and hurling teams beginning with the Down football team of 1960 / 61.
- History is sprinkled with tales of the exploits, achievements and leadership of young adults, even teenagers.
- In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
- Here, their daring exploits will never be forgotten.
- Though they claim he supports the insurgency because of his ideological opposition to the occupation, they soon lapse into talk of daring criminal exploits.
- Astoundingly, death did not come sooner and through different means, given her daring exploits in America's leading big tops.
- In 1999 he realized that, for all his daring exploits, he had been keeping his back turned on the biggest adventure of all: building a company from scratch.
- They romanticized aviation and grabbed the headlines with their daring exploits.
- In all the years I have been undertaking various exploits and adventures in numerous countries around the globe there is one thing I have never done.
Synonyms
feat, deed, act, adventure, stunt, escapade, manoeuvre, enterprise, undertaking, move
2A software tool designed to take advantage of a flaw in a computer system, typically for malicious purposes such as installing malware.
if someone you don't know tweets you a link, it's either spam, an exploit, or probably both
Example sentencesExamples
- The compromised website hosted an exploit which then allowed malware to be installed on these laptops.
- Exploit bundles are usually installed in hosting servers.
- Once the website is visited, the modified exploits will affect the system software and additional malware will get deployed.
- A hacker finds a software exploit and you have to change all your passwords, or your personal data gets leaked.
- No matter what platform you're running, security software will help remove known exploits and block newly emerging ones.
- Several web sites have already been disseminating malware using this exploit, triggering it with a mixture of HTML, JavaScript and Flash.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French esploit (noun), based on Latin explicare ‘unfold’ (see explicate). The early notion of ‘success, progress’ gave rise to the sense ‘attempt to capture’, ‘military expedition’, hence the current sense of the noun. Verb senses (mid 19th century) are from modern French exploiter.

单词	exploit
释义	Definition of exploit in English: exploit verb ɪkˈsplɔɪtɛkˈsplɔɪtɪkˈsplɔɪt [with object] 1Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource) 500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology Example sentencesExamples Whelks are widely distributed, but are commercially exploited in only some regions. The coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources. Can we stop over-using and exploiting the world's resources? Regions in the east are able to exploit natural resources such as forestry to provide for prison labour. Currently, manufacturers are exploiting the natural resources with very low efficiency. These boreal forest warblers all exploited that resource while it was abundant. Services that exploit the higher bandwidth available with 3G have to be marketed to consumers. Some other countries exploiting their mineral resources are setting aside money to prepare for the day when the oil runs out. It also pays special attention to exploiting marine resources and marketing marine products. It claims entitlement to an unspecific open-ended incentive derived from exploiting a natural resource. This means pushing to the limit their traditional food crops as well as their already over exploited marine resources. We are looking at exploiting other natural resources in the area, such as gold, such as phosphates, such as bauxite. And there are countless bacteria out there, just waiting to be commercially exploited. On the coast, the maritime villas that exploited the fishing resources of the lagoons and ponds still played a central role. With 13.3 million inhabitants in 1600, Italy's forest resources were exploited to their limit. The interim government believes it can double oil production by 2010 if it exploits existing facilities and develops new fields. And unless we are careful while exploiting this resource, we might end up depleting it to unsustainable levels. One of the primary objectives of modern economic theory and free markets is to exploit finite resources at ever-quicker rates. Still it is a national resource and should be exploited to the full. He said that it was like the old colonial attitude of exploiting a resource in an area but bringing the benefits back home to the ‘motherland’. Synonyms utilize, make use of, put to use, use, use to good advantage, turn/put to good use, make the most of, capitalize on, benefit from, turn to account, draw on profit from/by, make capital out of informal cash in on, milk 2Make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand. the company was exploiting a legal loophole Example sentencesExamples Spam is one of the areas that the underworld of the internet are successfully exploiting for commercial gain. He feels commercial interests are exploiting the situation and selling parents the idea that they can buy things to substitute for time with their children. They are cynically exploiting the fears and concerns that exist over the question of the immigrants. Worse still, when disasters occur they are ruthlessly exploited to advance the globalisation agenda. With five minutes left the visitors had exploited the situation to score two converted tries to cut RI's lead to eight points. Class hatreds were exploited on an unparalleled scale. Software defects can be exploited on scale far larger than defects in physical products. The nationwide store has ruthlessly exploited a legal loophole. Many private developers exploit the situation where the demand exceeds available space. I will not exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. "They have created the conditions that could be exploited by the terrorists, " he declared. That would eliminate some of the loopholes exploited by large, wealthy factory farms. Instead, by exploiting a tragic situation, I think they are trying to score cheap miles, and I firmly believe this will backfire in their faces. There is nothing, it seems, that can't be exploited for political profit. Sporting activities must be organised so that they are for leisure and not exploited for profit or voyeurism. These people also know how to exploit legal loopholes and can often avoid official inspections. Employers have exploited the situation to end strikes and press ahead with plans to cut jobs and working conditions. The security hole could be exploited by malicious hackers or a future internet worm. The worm exploits a vulnerability in the software which was first warned about in May 2000. Study your opponent, keep your defenses up and systematically exploit weaknesses. 2.1 Benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them. these workers are at particular risk of being exploited in the workplace Example sentencesExamples You are British workers, also exploited by the capitalists. To prevent workers being exploited, employee rights have had to be translated into eight different languages. Just because we can't see people being exploited, doesn't mean we aren't supporting this unjust system. I feel sorry for the elderly who are exploited in this manner. The capitalist system exploits people everywhere. Another participant focused on the manner in which men exploited women at the work place. He yesterday lashed out at his treatment by the media, implicitly accusing them of exploiting him for financial gain. Politicians have exploited these unfortunate people for their own ends. Motorists are being exploited primarily for revenue purposes, rather than for traffic safety reasons. The illegal status lets employers get away with exploiting the workers through lesser wages. Nobody complained that the international capitalists were exploiting the workers. Then we have some members saying to us that a small number of employers are exploiting their workers. The salt pan workers are exploited and often suffer from poor health but get no protection since it is an unorganised industry. The effect was to make it easier for the ruling class to exploit the peasants who formed the bulk of the population. The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century. Both groups are exploiting illegal immigrants for profit. Believed to have about 350 members, they see the EU as exploiting ordinary people and are against a European Constitution. We know he has made more than £100,000 from exploiting these people, but we suspect he has made a lot more than this. Thirdly, the reason why the capitalist can exploit workers is simply because they have power over them. There have been numerous complaints of outdated labour laws leading to unscrupulous employers exploiting workers. Synonyms take advantage of, make use of, abuse, impose on, prey on, play on, misuse, ill-treat, bleed, suck dry, squeeze, wring, enslave, treat unfairly, withhold rights from manipulate, cheat, swindle, fleece, victimize, live off the backs of informal walk (all) over, take for a ride, put one over on, cash in on, rip off noun ˈɛksplɔɪtˈɛkˌsplɔɪt 1A bold or daring feat. despite a series of colourful exploits, his agents obtained little intelligence of value Example sentencesExamples This reality series captures the exploits and escapades of life on the road with the world's most unusual troupe of performers, The Jim Rose Circus. Astoundingly, death did not come sooner and through different means, given her daring exploits in America's leading big tops. This series looks at the exploits of six great Gaelic football and hurling teams beginning with the Down football team of 1960 / 61. Here, their daring exploits will never be forgotten. McRae remains one of rallying's most insistent draws, fans still flushed by thoughts of his daring exploits behind the wheel. In 1999 he realized that, for all his daring exploits, he had been keeping his back turned on the biggest adventure of all: building a company from scratch. History is sprinkled with tales of the exploits, achievements and leadership of young adults, even teenagers. It has every thing the TV audience need, dramatic scenery, heroic exploits, a stage of passion and colour. Here I was transported back to the mid 18th century, reading about the exploits of Southern African adventurers, when, lo and behold, our great city gets a mention. In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods. Though they claim he supports the insurgency because of his ideological opposition to the occupation, they soon lapse into talk of daring criminal exploits. Only the movies and the daring exploits of aviation's record seekers seemed to offer any escape from the harsh realities of daily life. They romanticized aviation and grabbed the headlines with their daring exploits. Florence Nightingale is widely hailed as the founder of today's nursing profession, especially for her exploits in the Crimean War. The exploits, adventures and successes of the Mayo ladies over the past few years have unquestionably raised the profile of the sport. How did his wife feel about his adventurous exploits in the air after yesterday? Although he looks back at his own daring exploits with remarkable detachment, he realises how captivating they are to other people. In all the years I have been undertaking various exploits and adventures in numerous countries around the globe there is one thing I have never done. It was from here that Captain James Cook, a local lad, set sail around the globe, inflaming every schoolboy's passion for adventure with his daring exploits. At the same time, they were, and still are, fascinated by the exploits of secret agents and counterspies. Synonyms feat, deed, act, adventure, stunt, escapade, manoeuvre, enterprise, undertaking, move achievement, accomplishment, attainment, triumph (exploits) handiwork informal lark, caper 2A software tool designed to take advantage of a flaw in a computer system, typically for malicious purposes such as installing malware. if someone you don't know tweets you a link, it's either spam, an exploit, or probably both Example sentencesExamples Once the website is visited, the modified exploits will affect the system software and additional malware will get deployed. The compromised website hosted an exploit which then allowed malware to be installed on these laptops. Several web sites have already been disseminating malware using this exploit, triggering it with a mixture of HTML, JavaScript and Flash. A hacker finds a software exploit and you have to change all your passwords, or your personal data gets leaked. No matter what platform you're running, security software will help remove known exploits and block newly emerging ones. Exploit bundles are usually installed in hosting servers. Derivatives exploitable adjective ɪkˈsplɔɪtəb(ə)lɛkˈsplɔɪtəb(ə)l He said: ‘It's absolutely outrageous, it is feeding on people who are exploitable.’ Example sentencesExamples This leaves a narrow exploitable window of opportunity. If there is exploitable gas, then they will speak to us again in due course about bringing it ashore. Money is raised chiefly by publicising highly exploitable incidents, often of lawbreaking. Yet entrepreneurs and corporations are now developing ingenious ways to turn these natural commons into exploitable property. exploiter noun ɪkˈsplɔɪtəɪkˈsplɔɪdər There also seems to be no shortage of news outlets willing to make companies out to be the evil exploiters of labor and customers - after all, it sells newspapers. Example sentencesExamples With this concern have come the unending droves of promoters, frauds, and exploiters who traditionally prey upon the naive and trusting. The symbols and culture of the middle class have proliferated to the point that many individuals are both the exploited and the exploiters. A vast majority of people supported his government's policy, and ‘only a handful of exploiters are opposing a decision that has been taken in the best national and international interest’, he asserted. For much of the film it is hard to see him as anything but a shallow, pretentious exploiter thinking only of his own pleasure. Origin Middle English: from Old French esploit (noun), based on Latin explicare 'unfold' (see explicate). The early notion of 'success, progress' gave rise to the sense 'attempt to capture', 'military expedition', hence the current sense of the noun. Verb senses (mid 19th century) are from modern French exploiter. Rhymes adroit, dacoit, Detroit, doit, droit, maladroit, quoit Definition of exploit in US English: exploit verbɪkˈsplɔɪtikˈsploit [with object] 1Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource) 500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology Example sentencesExamples Currently, manufacturers are exploiting the natural resources with very low efficiency. Still it is a national resource and should be exploited to the full. It also pays special attention to exploiting marine resources and marketing marine products. The interim government believes it can double oil production by 2010 if it exploits existing facilities and develops new fields. With 13.3 million inhabitants in 1600, Italy's forest resources were exploited to their limit. It claims entitlement to an unspecific open-ended incentive derived from exploiting a natural resource. Whelks are widely distributed, but are commercially exploited in only some regions. Some other countries exploiting their mineral resources are setting aside money to prepare for the day when the oil runs out. And there are countless bacteria out there, just waiting to be commercially exploited. And unless we are careful while exploiting this resource, we might end up depleting it to unsustainable levels. He said that it was like the old colonial attitude of exploiting a resource in an area but bringing the benefits back home to the ‘motherland’. On the coast, the maritime villas that exploited the fishing resources of the lagoons and ponds still played a central role. We are looking at exploiting other natural resources in the area, such as gold, such as phosphates, such as bauxite. One of the primary objectives of modern economic theory and free markets is to exploit finite resources at ever-quicker rates. Can we stop over-using and exploiting the world's resources? Regions in the east are able to exploit natural resources such as forestry to provide for prison labour. This means pushing to the limit their traditional food crops as well as their already over exploited marine resources. These boreal forest warblers all exploited that resource while it was abundant. Services that exploit the higher bandwidth available with 3G have to be marketed to consumers. The coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources. Synonyms utilize, make use of, put to use, use, use to good advantage, put to good use, turn to good use, make the most of, capitalize on, benefit from, turn to account, draw on 1.1 Use (a situation or person) in an unfair or selfish way. the company was exploiting a legal loophole accusations that he exploited a wealthy patient Example sentencesExamples Sporting activities must be organised so that they are for leisure and not exploited for profit or voyeurism. I will not exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. That would eliminate some of the loopholes exploited by large, wealthy factory farms. Worse still, when disasters occur they are ruthlessly exploited to advance the globalisation agenda. The worm exploits a vulnerability in the software which was first warned about in May 2000. He feels commercial interests are exploiting the situation and selling parents the idea that they can buy things to substitute for time with their children. These people also know how to exploit legal loopholes and can often avoid official inspections. Spam is one of the areas that the underworld of the internet are successfully exploiting for commercial gain. Class hatreds were exploited on an unparalleled scale. With five minutes left the visitors had exploited the situation to score two converted tries to cut RI's lead to eight points. Many private developers exploit the situation where the demand exceeds available space. "They have created the conditions that could be exploited by the terrorists, " he declared. Instead, by exploiting a tragic situation, I think they are trying to score cheap miles, and I firmly believe this will backfire in their faces. Employers have exploited the situation to end strikes and press ahead with plans to cut jobs and working conditions. The nationwide store has ruthlessly exploited a legal loophole. Study your opponent, keep your defenses up and systematically exploit weaknesses. There is nothing, it seems, that can't be exploited for political profit. Software defects can be exploited on scale far larger than defects in physical products. They are cynically exploiting the fears and concerns that exist over the question of the immigrants. The security hole could be exploited by malicious hackers or a future internet worm. 1.2 Benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them. making money does not always mean exploiting others Example sentencesExamples Then we have some members saying to us that a small number of employers are exploiting their workers. To prevent workers being exploited, employee rights have had to be translated into eight different languages. Motorists are being exploited primarily for revenue purposes, rather than for traffic safety reasons. Thirdly, the reason why the capitalist can exploit workers is simply because they have power over them. You are British workers, also exploited by the capitalists. The effect was to make it easier for the ruling class to exploit the peasants who formed the bulk of the population. Nobody complained that the international capitalists were exploiting the workers. He yesterday lashed out at his treatment by the media, implicitly accusing them of exploiting him for financial gain. Just because we can't see people being exploited, doesn't mean we aren't supporting this unjust system. Politicians have exploited these unfortunate people for their own ends. We know he has made more than £100,000 from exploiting these people, but we suspect he has made a lot more than this. I feel sorry for the elderly who are exploited in this manner. The salt pan workers are exploited and often suffer from poor health but get no protection since it is an unorganised industry. Both groups are exploiting illegal immigrants for profit. Another participant focused on the manner in which men exploited women at the work place. The illegal status lets employers get away with exploiting the workers through lesser wages. Believed to have about 350 members, they see the EU as exploiting ordinary people and are against a European Constitution. The capitalist system exploits people everywhere. The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century. There have been numerous complaints of outdated labour laws leading to unscrupulous employers exploiting workers. Synonyms take advantage of, make use of, abuse, impose on, prey on, play on, misuse, ill-treat, bleed, suck dry, squeeze, wring, enslave, treat unfairly, withhold rights from nounˈɛkˌsplɔɪtˈekˌsploit 1A bold or daring feat. the most heroic and secretive exploits of the war Example sentencesExamples It has every thing the TV audience need, dramatic scenery, heroic exploits, a stage of passion and colour. This reality series captures the exploits and escapades of life on the road with the world's most unusual troupe of performers, The Jim Rose Circus. It was from here that Captain James Cook, a local lad, set sail around the globe, inflaming every schoolboy's passion for adventure with his daring exploits. Although he looks back at his own daring exploits with remarkable detachment, he realises how captivating they are to other people. Here I was transported back to the mid 18th century, reading about the exploits of Southern African adventurers, when, lo and behold, our great city gets a mention. McRae remains one of rallying's most insistent draws, fans still flushed by thoughts of his daring exploits behind the wheel. Florence Nightingale is widely hailed as the founder of today's nursing profession, especially for her exploits in the Crimean War. The exploits, adventures and successes of the Mayo ladies over the past few years have unquestionably raised the profile of the sport. Only the movies and the daring exploits of aviation's record seekers seemed to offer any escape from the harsh realities of daily life. How did his wife feel about his adventurous exploits in the air after yesterday? At the same time, they were, and still are, fascinated by the exploits of secret agents and counterspies. This series looks at the exploits of six great Gaelic football and hurling teams beginning with the Down football team of 1960 / 61. History is sprinkled with tales of the exploits, achievements and leadership of young adults, even teenagers. In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods. Here, their daring exploits will never be forgotten. Though they claim he supports the insurgency because of his ideological opposition to the occupation, they soon lapse into talk of daring criminal exploits. Astoundingly, death did not come sooner and through different means, given her daring exploits in America's leading big tops. In 1999 he realized that, for all his daring exploits, he had been keeping his back turned on the biggest adventure of all: building a company from scratch. They romanticized aviation and grabbed the headlines with their daring exploits. In all the years I have been undertaking various exploits and adventures in numerous countries around the globe there is one thing I have never done. Synonyms feat, deed, act, adventure, stunt, escapade, manoeuvre, enterprise, undertaking, move 2A software tool designed to take advantage of a flaw in a computer system, typically for malicious purposes such as installing malware. if someone you don't know tweets you a link, it's either spam, an exploit, or probably both Example sentencesExamples The compromised website hosted an exploit which then allowed malware to be installed on these laptops. Exploit bundles are usually installed in hosting servers. Once the website is visited, the modified exploits will affect the system software and additional malware will get deployed. A hacker finds a software exploit and you have to change all your passwords, or your personal data gets leaked. No matter what platform you're running, security software will help remove known exploits and block newly emerging ones. Several web sites have already been disseminating malware using this exploit, triggering it with a mixture of HTML, JavaScript and Flash. Origin Middle English: from Old French esploit (noun), based on Latin explicare ‘unfold’ (see explicate). The early notion of ‘success, progress’ gave rise to the sense ‘attempt to capture’, ‘military expedition’, hence the current sense of the noun. Verb senses (mid 19th century) are from modern French exploiter.
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