[ US /ˈɛksˌpɫɔɪt, ˌɛksˈpɫɔɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. draw from; make good use of
    we must exploit the resources we are given wisely
  2. work excessively hard
    he is exploiting the students
  3. use or manipulate to one's advantage
    He exploit the new taxation system
    he works his parents for sympathy
    She knows how to work the system
NOUN
  1. a notable achievement
    the book was her finest effort
    he performed a great feat
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How To Use exploit In A Sentence

  • Pressure difference adhesion and a kinetic pectoral girdle thus allow the clingfish to exploit a food resource unavailable to many other predators.
  • And if that doesn't make you happy, there's always Sabrina's story of organizing young women dancers to go on strike against an MTV sexploitation video.
  • The traditional value of the blades was clearly recognized by their Aboriginal ‘collectors’, who sought to exploit it by hafting a resin handle in the traditional way.
  • The hyena exploits carcasses more fully than either cat because of its bone-cracking abilities.
  • The word 'internship' carries no legal definition and therefore often leads to graduate exploitation," said Mr Curtis. BBC News - Home
  • Hunger and poverty often compel the poor to overexploit the resources on which their own livelihoods depend.
  • The history of Christian missions, after all, is the chronicle of Western missionaries and their exploits, and the notion of missionaries from the East preaching to a godless Europe is the stuff of creative fiction. The Chinese are Coming
  • However, take away the press and anti-war exploitation of these events and this is a systemic problem like drug use is systemic, rape is systemic, and gay bashing is systemic.
  • Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation.
  • Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
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