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exploited

[ik-sploit]

verb (used with object)

to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.

to use selfishly for one's own ends: employers who exploit their workers.

to advance or further through exploitation; promote: He exploited his new movie through a series of guest appearances.

Origin:
1375–1425; < French exploiter, derivative of exploit (noun); replacing late Middle English expleiten to achieve < Anglo-French espleiter, derivative of espleit (noun). See exploit¹

Related forms

ex·ploit·a·ble, adjective

ex·ploit·a·bil·i·ty, noun

ex·ploit·a·tive, ex·ploit·a·to·ry

[ik-sploi-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , ex·ploit·ive, adjective

ex·ploit·er, noun

half-ex·ploit·ed, adjective

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non·ex·ploit·a·ble, adjective

non·ex·ploit·a·tive, adjective

non·ex·ploi·tive, adjective

self-ex·ploit·ed, adjective

self-ex·ploit·ing, adjective

un·ex·ploit·a·ble, adjective

un·ex·ploit·a·tive, adjective

un·ex·ploit·ed, adjective

un·ex·ploit·ive, adjective

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Example Sentences

These theories of systematic fraud are really unfounded fears being exploited to threaten the franchise.

Lesko publishes a magazine for adjuncts, but stop telling her they're exploited.

We are constantly exploited by the tools meant to foil our exploitation.

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These theories of systematic fraud are really unfounded fears being exploited to threaten the franchise.

Lesko publishes a magazine for adjuncts, but stop telling her they're exploited.

We are constantly exploited by the tools meant to foil our exploitation.

There are lots of ways that being exploited can add up to learning a lot about outdoor photography.

However, these capabilities can be exploited by anyone with access to suitably equipped drones.

But then, poor people get poor mainly because they are exploited by rich people.

There are three main frontiers in vehicle design to be exploited.

China's exploited workers don't need an extra parent.

IAn older woman might resist exploitation better, but that doesn't change the fact that those who don't are being exploited.

At the same time, he has exploited the heightened tension to silence critics at home.

But the lack of such proof of ownership meant they were often unable to defend their territories from being occupied or exploited.

Maybe that harmonizing could be exploited for controlling mosquito populations.

Microsoft urged users to download and install the patch to prevent any risk that the vulnerability may be exploited.

There's nothing unreasonable about that policy, but it can be exploited.

Then they exploited the incentives they had paid for.

The landscape in areas not spoiled by beach developments is gorgeous and little exploited for tourism and recreational purposes.

The problem is that it is an herb and cannot be patented and exploited for profit.

It may be a corporate framing of a cultural phenomenon to be exploited.

Further, no one should be exploited the way graduate youngsters used to be, before there were rules protecting human subjects.

Nokia exploited this by ramping up production and increasing its market share.

Lack of government controls has allowed these areas to be invaded and exploited for their natural resources.

But the curtailment of commercial fishing owing to fears over contaminated seafood may hasten the recovery of exploited species.

The line between science, magic and sheer fun is a thin one and that ought to be exploited.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

The principle is exploited in devices from electric motors to power transformers.

Mulanje cedar has also been exploited to the point that it is now endangered.

Ask the billion starving humans and billion exploited workers earning less than a dollar a day if they are doing well.

It is unknown if this bug was ever actually exploited.

It is also the one hedge funders and private-equity people have exploited to keep the billions they rake in.

Hope their lives don't get ruined and exploited by being introduced to the media, but actually protected and glorified.

If it had economic value, then it would have been exploited already.

It can be used to cool metals to such an extent that they become superconductors, an effect that is exploited in brain scanners.

Lots of places are exploited by tourists, but it's a two-way exploitation.

And these same advances are being exploited in a new generation of diesel engines for use in small fixed-wing aircraft.

Others are convinced that immigrant workers are horribly exploited or trapped forever in low-wage jobs.

The tuneability of the radiation could also be exploited.

Politicians say it is exploited to maximise welfare and housing benefits.

Brazil hopes that the oil discoveries will be exploited in a way that helps other industries rather than harming them.

Many people are outrageously exploited at work, but interns are not among them.

The desire for learning among service members and veterans is too often exploited by unscrupulous schools.

Ground vibrations make certain earthworms race to the surface, a response that is exploited by bait collectors.

Linnaeus sought to reveal what he saw as the divine order of the natural world so that it might be exploited for human benefit.

The counterintuitive behavior may be exploited to make a crystal sponge for chemical cleanup.

Labor activists say temporary workers are exploited and need more legal protection.

It's bad enough that some instructors are exploited.

The credulity of comet-struck crowds in the third world will be exploited by unscrupulous politicians and holy.

We could see that the landscape was being exploited on a grand scale by this agriculture.

Resources extracted from the asteroids could be exploited in space to support space flight, space stations or even a lunar base.

The same back-end billing and accounting software can be exploited to handle all of these accounts.

The few large ones exploited appear dowdy and demode, and they lack altogether the charm displayed by those of.

Their converts were no more than local ruffians who exploited foreign protection to ride roughshod over their countrymen.

Two years ago the island was pretty thoroughly exploited in the.

And for the exploited sharecroppers of academe, the adjuncts, the situation has already reached crises levels.

Chemists have exploited these light-emitting reactions as markers in a large number of laboratory and clinical tests.

Andrews and his colleagues exploited scattering to boost the amount of data transmitted.

The lack of uniformity among local probate courts can be exploited by parties seeking legal venues where they enjoy an advantage.

Any attempts to take the high road will simply be exploited as a weakness.

Cognitive load is exploited by magicians, whose verbal and physical flourishes distract from sleight-of-hand.

Like the exploited peddlers, both women are deaf and unable to speak.

Historically, those countries were colonized and exploited by the rich nations.

The other issue is this overpopulation that keeps getting exploited for political and economical purposes.

He then presented a list of protocols that can be exploited using hacking tools:.

Women of occupied countries were exploited willingly and unwillingly.

The fund-management industry has exploited this by persuading investors to judge it on past performance, rather than price.

The feel of sounds could be exploited in devices for groups such as the hearing impaired.

Investors exploited it as a quick-and fatally flawed-way to.

Thousands of vertical wells have exploited the shale's easy-to-reach.

Frontalot paints a bleak picture of a not-so-distant future in which all of our security exploits have been… properly exploited.

Skloot writes, it was seen as the case of a black woman whose body had been exploited by white scientists.

The probabilistic principles underlying the experiment are similar to predictive algorithms exploited by search engines.

Some friends believe greedy art dealers and collectors exploited him.

The polar bear is being exploited by the eco-fascists as a money raising tool.

It also helps establish who the characters are as well as create sub-plots that can be exploited later.

However, he will continue to fight to keep the market power he has so profitably exploited.

For these experiments they exploited the fact that miraculin has no effect on the sweet taste receptors of mice.

Friedman cheerfully and cheesily exploited an audience's hunger for bare-breasted.

It was known for the torturing and killing that went on within its own ranks-a fact easily exploited by its enemies.

Possessed of an unusually rich pop baritone, he exploited his virile timbre for all of its considerable seductive power.

He was a control freak, who created a proprietorial cash cow, while convincing his exploited customers that he was a saviour.

Not until resources are preserved with as much force as they're exploited with will conservation be taken seriously.

Its secret police exploited the smallest weakness of anyone who might be useful or threatening.

Her seasoned, pragmatic campaign managers have exploited her looks and easy-going nature to the full.

It is hardly a surprise that the momentum effect has been exploited by some professionals for decades.

Trapped into illegality there, many are exploited and abused.

And it has been cynically exploited by politicians and generals alike.

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Word Origin & History

exploit

M.E. espleiten, esploiten "to accomplish;" the sense of "use selfishly" first recorded 1838, as an adoption of Fr. exploiter. See exploit (n.). Related: Exploited; exploiting. As an adjective form, exploitative (1882) is from French; exploitive (by 1859) appears to be a native formation

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"Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death M even death on a cross."

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