Definition of Exploit

Exploit

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

Combat; war.

To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.

Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.

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Exploit Quotations

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Giacomo Casanova

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
Yitzhak Rabin

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
Dick Clark

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
Jello Biafra

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
King Hussein I

People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
Gary Oldman

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
Wynton Marsalis

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Johan Huizinga

If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.
Janis Karpinski

Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Mason Cooley

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.
Kevin Kelly

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
Kevin Kelly

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
George Takei

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
Anna Lindh

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
Connie Sellecca

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
Cecil Rhodes

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.
Jim Fowler

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
Marc Maron

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.
Evan Parker

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.
John W. Thompson

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.
Nina Blackwood

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
Stephen Greenblatt

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
Jim Sensenbrenner

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.
Donna Rice

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Blake Edwards

There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America.
Arlo Guthrie

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
Kate Millett

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Mo Udall

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Barney Oliver

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Exploit Translations

exploit in Danish is udbytte
exploit in Dutch is exploiteren, uitbuiten, uitmelken
exploit in French is exploiter, exploitons, exploitez, exploitent
exploit in German is verwerten, ausbeuten, ausbeuten, ausnutzen
exploit in Italian is utilizzare
exploit in Swedish is bedrift, utnyttja, bragd

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