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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat1.
  2. v. To employ to the greatest possible advantage: exploit one's talents.
  3. v. To make use of selfishly or unethically: a country that exploited peasant labor. See Synonyms at manipulate.
  4. v. To advertise; promote.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Achievement; performance; usually, a deed or act of some exceptional or remarkable kind; a conspicuous performance; more especially, a spirited or heroic act; a great or noble achievement: as, the exploits of Alexander, of Cæsar, of Wellington.
  2. n. Advantage; benefit.
  3. n. Synonyms Deed, Feat, etc. See feat.
  4. To achieve; accomplish.
  5. To make complete use of; work up; bring into play; utilize; cultivate.
  6. Specifically To employ or utilize selfishly; turn to one's own advantage without regard to right or justice; make subservient to self-interest.
  7. To make research or experiment; explore.
  8. To work (as a mine, etc.); to turn to industrial use.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
  2. n. An achievement.
  3. n. computing A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
  4. v. transitive To use for one’s own advantage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement.
  2. n. obsolete Combat; war.
  3. n. Recent To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of
  4. n. Recent Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. work excessively hard
  2. v. use or manipulate to one's advantage
  3. n. a notable achievement
  4. v. draw from; make good use of

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old French esploit, from Latin explicitum, neuter past participle of explicāre, to unfold; see explicate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. combat
  1. war
  1. utilize
  1. milk
  1. works
  1. dee
  1. take advantage of
  1. use

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. feat
  2. achievement
  3. adventure
  4. deed
  1. enterprise
  2. doings
  3. prowess
  4. expedition
  1. undertake
  2. valour
  3. exertion
  4. episode
  1. encounter
  2. triumph
  3. personage
  4. excursion
  1. career
  2. occurrence
  3. conquest
  4. courage
  1. invention

rhymes (7)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Beloit
  1. Detroit
  1. Voigt
  1. adroit
  1. coit
  1. hoit
  1. maladroit

reverse dictionary (58)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. overexploit
  2. milk
  3. commercialize
  4. harness
  5. feat
  6. espleit
  7. machine
  8. work
  9. Philadelphia lawyer
  10. gem
  11. oil-on
  1. assumptive arms
  2. braveness
  3. exploiter
  4. hardiment
  5. nonbook
  6. pander
  7. gest
  8. achieve
  9. agnomen
  10. chivalry
  11. deed
  1. exploitive
  2. vamper
  3. mine
  4. rip
  5. vamp
  6. royalty
  7. prickteaser
  8. tease
  9. add
  10. advantage
  11. drive
  1. exploit
  2. trade
  3. use
  4. exploitative
  5. exploitatory
  6. minx
  7. monopolise
  8. monopolize
  9. camouflage
  10. coquette
  11. electronic warfare
  1. ew
  2. flirt
  3. munchausenism
  4. optimize
  5. overutilize
  6. to pander to
  7. parlay
  8. cap
  9. game
  10. hardy
  11. jest
  1. knack
  2. performance
  3. point

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  • Rachel Slater The other day I was talking to my mom at work and she used this word . Apparentlty one of the workers said that my mom likes to exploit people and not pay them enough.. My momis only the GM so she has no control over pay !

    Oct 24, 2010

  • eggoabbas As a noun this can also refer to a vulnerability discovered in a computer system (or a method of accessing or triggering that vulnerability). Jul 9, 2009

  • oroboros Contronymic in the sense of a heroic act vs. exploitation (for selfish ends). Jan 9, 2007

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