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Exploit

Exploit Meaning & Definition
Exploit Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Exploit?

[n] a notable achievement; "he performed a great deed"; "the book was her finest effort"
[v] use or manipulate to one's advantage; "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy"
[v] draw from; make good use of (resources)
[v] work excessively hard

Synonyms | Synonyms for Exploit: deed | effort | feat | overwork | tap | work

Related Terms | Find terms related to Exploit: abuse | accomplished fact | accomplishment | achievement | act | acta | action | adventure | apply | aristeia | attainment | beguile | benefit from | bestow | bleed | bleed white | blow | bold stroke | capitalize on | cash in on | clip | coup | cultivate | dealings | deed | do | doing | doings | drain | effort | employ | emprise | endeavor | enterprise | exercise | fait accompli | feat | finesse | fleece | gest | go | gouge | hand | handiwork | handle | heroic act | hold up | ill-use | impose | impose upon | improve | improve the occasion | job | jockey | make capital of | make hay | make use of | maneuver | manipulate | measure | milk | misuse | move | operation | overcharge | overprice | overt act | overtax | passage | performance | play | play on | presume upon | proceeding | production | profit by | profiteer | put to advantage | res gestae | screw | skin | soak | step | stick | sting | stroke | stunt | suck dry | surcharge | swindle | take advantage of | thing | thing done | tour de force | trade on | transaction | turn | turn to account | turn to profit | turn to use | undertaking | use | use ill | use to advantage | utilize | venture | victimize | work | work on | work upon | works

See Also | accomplishment | achievement | acquiring | actuation | apply | avail | causation | causing | commercialize | delivery | departure | derring-do | digging up | discovery | disinterment | disposal | disposition | effectuation | egress | egression | emergence | employ | equalisation | equalization | exhumation | feed | find | getting | going | going away | harness | help | hit | implementation | leaving | leveling | maximise | maximize | milk | mine | obstetrical delivery | overdrive | overexploit | play | prey | propulsion | put to work | quarry | rally | rallying | recovery | retrieval | running away | stunt | touch | touching | tour de force | uncovering | use | utilise | utilize | work

Exploit In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*ploit"\, n. [OE. esploit success, OF. esploit, espleit,revenue, product, vigor, force, exploit, F. exploit exploit, fr. L. explicitum, prop. p. p. neut. of explicare to unfold, display, exhibit; ex + plicare to fold. See {Ply}, and cf. {Explicit}, {Explicate}.] 1. A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great. Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. --Shak. 2. Combat; war. [Obs.] He made haste to exploit some warlike service. --Holland. 2. [F. exploiter.] To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion. [Recent] 3. Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon. [Recent] In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employ['e]s or make his capital ``out of'' anybody else. --W. G. Sumner.

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