Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of exploit.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of persons; taken advantage of
- adj. developed or used to greatest advantage
Examples
“Neither attitude, the sacrificial or the exploited, is notably appealing in a police officer or, for that matter, in any other public servant.”
The Guardian: Do we really want to be policed by hobby bobbies?
“To commercialize carbon capture, as well as transport of liquified carbon dioxide and its storage in exploited oil fields or saline formations, many technological, commercial, and political hurdles remain to be overcome.”
“Palin exploited and abused the goodwill created by a lot of reasonable middle-ground conservatives and liberals in Alaska.”
“Halderman writes that the problem they found isn't the issue so much as the problems that are yet to be found: The specific vulnerability that we exploited is simple to fix, but it will be vastly more difficult to make the system secure.”
The Washington Post: Michigan prof explains how D.C. online voting system was hacked
“Perhaps this tendency to idealize the exploited is part of our literary tradition as a whole.”
“Virgo: The narrow area between get the job done and getting exploited is strictly in the purvue of Virgo this week.”
“She replied that they will import it from economically desperate Albania — which, of course, means that it will be another case of the rich exploiting the poor to maintain their quality of life and the exploited is left with a degraded landscape.”
“Once again, protecting foreign workers from being exploited is the OPPOSITE of what you claim Clinton stood for.”
“But the most important conclusion is already clear: Saddam Hussein exploited the program to run the largest bribery scheme in the history of the world.”
“There are PLENTY of holes in Mozilla and Firefox - the fact that they aren't being exploited is only a side-effect of their limited use.”
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
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veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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2011 August
cajolery, vexing, irk, grindstone, millstone, candid, subterfuge, culprit, arraigned, faltering, modicum, surmise and 58 more...
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Vocab Last Semester Exam
evacuated, relief, ritual, belief, practice, reality, enforce, authority, react, exploiting, exploited, exploits and 25 more...
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