Exploit

Definitions: Exploit

Exploit

Noun

1. A notable achievement: "he performed a great deed"; "the book was her finest effort".

Verb

1. Use to one's advantage; "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy".

2. Draw from; make good use of (resources).

3. Work excessively hard.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "exploit" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Etymology: Exploit \Ex*ploit"\, noun. [from Old English expression esploit success, Old French esploit, espleit,revenue, product, vigor, force, exploit, French exploit exploit, from the Latin expression explicitum, prop. present participle neut. of explicare to unfold, display, exhibit; ex plicare to fold. See Ply, and compare to Explicit, Explicate.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Exploit

Action

Deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan).

Courage

Exploit, feat, achievement; heroic deed, heroic act; bold stroke.

Crosswords: Exploit

French (exploit, feat), Italian (brilliant achievement, exploit).

I tried to exploit the power of darkness, but it backfired. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

Just because my grandfather didn't rape the environment and exploit the workers doesn't make me a peasant. (All of Me; writing credit: Edwin Davis; Phil Alden Robinson)

There can be no excuse for those who use animation to exploit innocent children. (Excel Saga; writing credit: Hideyuki Kurata; Y�suke Kuroda)

The Marriage of Muggins VC and a Further Exploit (1910)

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Books

• Breakpoints: How Managers Exploit Radical Change (reference)

• Campaign Trading: Tactics and Strategies to Exploit the Markets (Wiley Finance Editions) (reference)

• Exploit the Product Life Cycle [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Market Segmentation: Using Demographics, Psychographics, and Other Segmentation Techniques to Uncover and Exploit New Markets (reference)

• Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

High seas fisheries: Ocean pelagic resources living near the surface are exploit ed by purse seiners and surface long-liners . Top: Italian purse seiner fishing in the central Adriatic. Middle: Bluefin tuna caught in the South Tyrrh enian by a purse seiner. Bottom:Distant-water surface longliner operating in the Mediterranean.Credit: Fisheries.

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The French State may also establish any new means of communication, such as roads, electric lines, and telephone connections which it may consider necessary for the exploitation of the mines it may exploit freely and without any restrictions the means of communication of which it may become the owner, particularly those connecting the mines and their accessories and subsidiaries with the means of communication situated in French territory. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

After this exploit, I walked gently to and fro on the bed, to recover my breath and loss of spirits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

As pressures on Medicaid programs increase, they can be expected to look for other opportunities to exploit Medicare services. (references)

Business

U.S. firms dominate the market and are well positioned to exploit these opportunities. (references)

However they have the capacity to exploit their networks and invest in wireless access. (references)

Each market is different and requires qualified local partners to exploit its opportunities. (references)

Children

Mexico

Corrupt police officials sometimes exploit these children by pressuring them to commit petty crimes and extorting money from them. (references)

Luxembourg

A 1999 law increased penalties for adults who traffic in children, facilitate child prostitution, or exploit children through pornography. (references)

Brazil

Legislation enacted in June 2000 lengthened the maximum sentence to 10 years in prison for persons who manage brothels that exploit child prostitutes. (references)

Economic History

Chad

U.S. suppliers should therefore be well positioned to exploit this growing market. (references)

Rwanda

It has few natural resources to exploit and a small, uncompetitive industrial sector. (references)

Chad

In 2001, a South Korean company, AFKO, began to exploit gold in the Mayo Kebbi region. (references)

Indigenous People

Bolivia

Indigenous people complain that their territories are not defined legally or protected, and that outsiders exploit their resources. (references)

Minorities

Austria

In July 2000, in a related development, the Government approved the placement of bilingual town signs in Croat- and Hungarian-speaking areas of Burgenland province, an action pending since 1955. During 2000 regional election campaigns, the FPO attempted to exploit the fears of many citizens that EU expansion and a continued influx of asylum seekers and refugees from the Balkans and other areas would result in uncontrolled immigration. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

U.S. technology and expertise are prized as a means to explore and exploit these resources. (references)

Trade

Syria

The General Organization of Free Zones (GOFZ) was established in 1972 to promote foreign investment in Syria and to exploit Syria's economic potential and historic role as a "commercial bridge" between East and West. (references)

Ukraine

This effectively turned the State Tax Administration (STA), responsible for the overall implementation of tax laws, into a predator and induced tax collectors to impose maximum fines, or to exploit unclear and contradictory aspects of the tax laws in order to generate fines. (references)

Worker Rights

Congo

Larger enterprises generally do not exploit child labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "exploit": daring exploit ♦ exploit a mine ♦ exploit mercilessly ♦ exploit success. Additional references.

Beginning with "exploit": exploit-ation.

Ending with "exploit": over-exploit.

Albanian

shfrytëzoj (avail oneself of, embrace, exercise, harness, maintain, make the best, make the most of, make use of, milk, quarry, use, utilize, work, work out), përdor (apply, call forth, employ, exercise, manipulate, participate, reclaim, take, use, utilize, wield), akt heroik (deed, feat). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مأثرة (achievement, contribution, deed), ‏عمل بطولي (feat), ‏إستغل (avail, follow up, harness, impose, milk, presume, profiteer, quarry, take advantage of, tap, trade on), ‏إستخدم (employ, engage, exercise, harness, hire, hunt, indent, involve, spend, take on, use, utilize), ‏إستثمر (develop, invest, mine, monopolize, operation, place, plough). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разработвам (amplify, develop, elaborate, mature, open, operate, recover, run in, shake down, treat, work out), експлоатирам (drive, maintain, milk, operate, run, work), подвиг (achievement, feat, performance), използувам (apply, embrace, employ, impose, impress, milk, play on, put on, put upon, seize, take advantage of, use, utilize). (various references)

Chinese 

開發 (open up, to develop), 盘剥, 偉業 (great undertaking), 剝削 , 勳績 , 利�"� (make use of, to take advantage of, to use, to utilize). (various references)

Czech

exploatovat (tap, work), využitkovat, využít (avail oneself of, embrace, fob, grasp, suck, tap, utilize), tìžit (extract, profit, quarry). (various references)

Danish

udbytte (balance, dividend, efficiency, output, produce, production, profit, utilize, yield). (various references)

Dutch

uitmelken (utilize), uitbuiten (utilize), exploiteren (utilize). (various references)

Esperanto

ekspluati (utilize). (various references)

Faeroese

eyðræna (utilize), ama út (utilize). (various references)

Farsi 

کاربرجسته (Performance), کردار (Act, Deed, Issue, Jest), عمل (Act, Experiment, Function, Issue, Jest, Latitude, Operation, Ploy, Work), استخراج کردن (Educe, Extract, Pan), استثمارکردن , شاهکار (Masterwork, Mesterpiece, Performance, Stunt), بهره برداری کردن از (Tap). (various references)

Finnish

urotyö (feat, heroic deed), riistää (cannibalise, cannibalize, deprive bereave, dispossess, rob, take, tear, wrench), käyttää hyväkseen (avail oneself of, make use of, take advantage of, utilize), käyttää hyödykseen (make use of, utilize). (various references)

French

exploiter. (various references)

Frisian

eksploitearje (utilize). (various references)

German

ausnutzen (follow up, harness, make the most of, make use of, put upon, take advantage of, to exploit, to take advantage of, use, utilize), ausbeuten (deplete, overwork, play out, to exploit, utilize, work, work out), verwerten (employ, make use of, put to use, to exploit, to realize, turn to account, use, utilize). (various references)

Greek 

εκμεταλλεύομαι (presume upon, take advantage of). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעש�" �'בור�" (feat), לעשוק (maltreat, maraud, oppress, subdue, subjugate), ל�"שתמש (apply, resort to, use), ל� צל (capitalize, despoil, make use of, plunder, sponge, take advantage of, trade on, use, utilize), עליל�" (act, action, deed, frame up, plot, story), �"ש�' (accomplishment, achievement, acquirement, attainment, feat, gain, record). (various references)

Hungarian

kizsákmányol (to exploit, to put upon, to sweat), hasznosít (to capitalize, to develop, to harness, to utilize, utilise, utilize), hõstett. (various references)

Indonesian

eksploitir (work), perbuatan berani, mengeksploitasi (use). (various references)

Italian

sfruttare (make the most of, overwork, profit by, push, sweat, take advantage of, trade on, utilize, work), utilizzare (avail, make use of, present, use, utilise, utilize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

功業 (achievement), 事績 (achievement, merits). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うぎょう (achievement, entertainment industry, industrial enterprise, industry, mining industry, show business), じせき (achievement, assistant, associate, evidence, junior, merits, one's desk, one's seat, runner-up, self-condemnation, trace, vestige). (various references)

Korean 

이용 (utilisation, utilization, Utilizing). (various references)

Manx

treanid (braveness, doughtiness, feat, heroics, starkness, strength, valiantness, valour), goaill ro-foays ass. (various references)

Norwegian

utnytte, dåd, bedrift. (various references)

Papiamen

eksplotá (utilize). (various references)

Pig Latin

exploitay

Portuguese

façanha (accomplishment, achievement, action, adventure, deed, feat, prowess, stunt), explorar (discover, examine, explore, flay, have to, investigate, milk, pioneer, probe, profiteer, prospect, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, research, scan, utilize, vamp). (various references)

Romanian

exploata (cultivate, get, hack, horse, milk, mine, operate, overwork, quarry, screw, sweat, win, work), specula (job, play upon, speculate), robi (enslave, enthrall, fascinate, hack, slave), realizare remarcabilã, oprima (bear hard on, grind, gripe, oppress, override), mulge (milk), ispravã (adventure, deed, feat, stunt, success, trick), faptã eroicã, faptã (achievement, act, action, deed, feat, gesture, philanthropy, proceeding, process, work), da în exploatare, abuza (abuse, deceive, delude, misuse, stretch). (various references)

Russian 

эксплуатировать (operate, sweat, take advantage of), разрабатывать (design, develop, devise, elaborate, elaborating, work out, work up), подвиг (deed, feat, performance). (various references)

Scottish

euchd (a feat, achievement, feat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

eksploatisati, podvig (accomplishment, feat, stunt), iskoristiti (avail, draw on, employ, improve, make the most of, use, utilize). (various references)

Spanish

explotar (bang, blast, blow up, develop, draw on, draw upon, explode, go off, go pop, go up, harness, make capital out of, mine, operate, run, set off, sweat, tap, touch off, utilize, work), hazaña (achievement, deed, feat, performance). (various references)

Swedish

utnyttja (avail oneself of, cotton on, impose on, make use of, take advantage of, trade on, turn to advantage, use, utilising, utilize), bragd (deed, feat), bedrift (achievement, deed, feat). (various references)

Turkish

yiğitlik (achievements, bravery, courage, dare devilry, dare deviltry, daring, doughtiness, feat, gallantry, gameness, intrepidity, manfulness, pluckiness, prowess, stoutness, valiantness, valor, virility), sömürmek (sweat, trade on), macera (adventure, affair, business, business deal, case, cloak-and-dagger, flirt, flirtation, gallantry, matter, romance), kullanmak (apply, call forth, dispose, dispose of, draw on, drive, employ, engage, exert, handle, harness, head, lay on, make use of, operate, pilot, ply, put account, ride, roll, run, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), kahramanlık (achievements, bravery, deed, feat, gallantry, heroism, prowess, valor, valour), kötüye kullanmak (abuse, betray, defile, encroach, impose, make a draft on, misappropriate, misemploy, misuse, presume on, presume upon), istismar etmek (make a draft on, play smb. for a sucker, take advantage of), işletmek (actuate, bamboozle, befool, cod, control, dupe, hoax, hornswoggle, keep, kid, manage, operate, ply, pull smb.'s leg, run, run the show, spoof, work), faydalanmak (follow up, make use of, profit by, rejoice in, take advantage of, trade on, use), üstün başarı (eclat, feat). (various references)

Turkmen 

eksplutatirlemek (r). (various references)

Ukranian 

використовувати (embrace, work), експлуатувати (operate, rack), битва (battle, combat, fight, operation, war), подвиг (achievement, deed, feat, gest). (various references)

Vietnamese 

th� nh tích chói lọi, kỳ công (feat, master-stroke). (various references)

Welsh

gorchest (bravado, feat), camp (achievement, antics, feat, game, prize). (various references)

ausi, explicitum. (various references)

geste. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "exploit": exploitable, exploitation, exploitations, exploitative, exploitatively, exploited, exploiter, exploiters, exploiting, exploitive, exploits. (additional references)

Words ending with "exploit": overexploit. (additional references)

Words containing "exploit": nonexploitation, nonexploitations, nonexploitative, nonexploitive, overexploitation, overexploitations, overexploited, overexploiting, overexploits, sexploitation, sexploitations, unexploited. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Exploit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eopolis, Eppolito, Eupolis, expla, expliot, explit, explixit, exploid, exploite, explost, exploy, exployt, Expofil. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: piolet, polite.

-2 letters: extol, ixtle, oxlip, pilot, pixel, teloi, toile.

-3 letters: exit, expo, ilex, lept, lipe, lite, lope, loti, pelt, pile, plie, plot, poet, pole, tile, toil, tole, tope, topi.

-4 letters: lei, let, lex, lie, lip, lit, lop, lot, lox, oil, ole, ope, opt, pet, pie, pit, pix, poi, pol, pot, pox, tel, tie.

+1 letter: exploits.

+2 letters: exploited, exploiter.

+3 letters: complexity, explicator, exploiters, exploiting, exploitive, postexilic.

+4 letters: exceptional, exculpation, explanation, explication, explicators, explicatory, exploitable, exploration, explorative, exponential, multiplexor, overexploit, phytoalexin, prolixities, proximately, toxophilies, toxophilite, unexploited.

+5 letters: complexation, complexities, exculpations, exophthalmic, explanations, explantation, explications, exploitation, exploitative, explorations, exponentials, expositional, multiplexors, overexplicit, overexploits, phyllotaxies, phytoalexins, toxophilites.

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