exploit
/ɪksˈplɔɪt/ verb B2- To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit. · to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way
- To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage. · Materialistic people who exploit others will come to a bad end.
He/she/it exploits · Past exploited · Past participle exploited · -ing form exploiting
Verb forms
- Base form
- exploit
- He/she/it
- exploits
- Past
- exploited
- Past participle
- exploited
- -ing form
- exploiting
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Josie walked the Barry fence with an airy unconcern which seemed to imply that a little thing like that wasn’t worth a “dare.” Reluctant admiration greeted her exploit, for most of the other girls could appreciate it, having suffered many things themselves in their efforts to walk fences.
He is learned in old manorial and communal rights, and he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villagers of Fernworthy and sometimes against them, so that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street or else burned in effigy, according to his latest exploit.
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