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exploit
/ˈɛkˌsplɔɪt/
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What does exploit mean?
noun
- A heroic or extraordinary deed.
- An achievement.
- A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
More meanings (3)
noun
- An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
verb
- To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
- To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛkˌsplɔɪt/
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They exploit the domestic affections of the forest dwellers in order to strip them of all they possess in the world.
As such it does not afford any appreciable pecuniary incentive, but it contains a more or less obvious element of exploit.
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The enemy had but to exploit the attack fully to break through to the channel ports, but failed to do so.
This, like too many a description written then and now to exploit a colonizing scheme, was far too good to be true.