exposure
/ɪkˈspoʊ.ʒɚ/ noun C1- The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected. · Limit your exposure to harsh chemicals.· Get as much exposure to a new language as you can.
- Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
- The act of exposing something, such as a scandal.
- The degree to which an individual, their content, or their brand is seen by the target market or the general public; internet fame.
- The act or condition of being at risk of financial losses.
- That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view. · They rented a cabin with a beautiful southern exposure.
- An instance of taking a photograph.
- The piece of film exposed to light.
Plural exposures
From the library
When, the day after the arrival of this answer, your father came by the advice of Monte Cristo to ask my daughter’s hand for you, I decidedly refused him, but without any explanation or exposure.
“Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public exposure.
Are we assured that the apprehension, from which this young man has no doubt suffered terribly since his exposure to its contagion, may not produce a physical effect which simulates that which it fears?
Acton’s, and having thus got them into his power, proceeded, under threats of exposure, to levy blackmail upon them.
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