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/ˈɛksplˌɔɪtəd/ /ɪksplˈɔɪtəd/ Listen

Exploited

adjective

Developed or used to greatest advantage.

Of persons; taken advantage of. Synonyms: ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised, victimized.

Exploit

verb

Use or manipulate to one's advantage. Synonym: work. "She knows how to work the system" , "He works his parents for sympathy"

Draw from; make good use of. Synonym: tap.

Work excessively hard. Synonym: overwork.

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"Exploited" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the situation, and it went home to the lawyer's mind at once. He had been brought into the case willy nilly, and he would be blamed for anything that happened to this young Texan, whose deeds had recently been exploited broadcast in the papers. He stood for an instant in frowning thought, and as he did so a clause in the letter from the Governor of Texas caught ...

— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine

... came to her, as she sat propped against the pillows of the elaborately hung bed in her French gray and old-rose room. The same hour which brought the breakfast tray brought Mrs. Heath's social secretary and those duties which lie incumbent upon a leader of society's most exploited and inner circles. ...

— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck

... trajectories which must be very useful in many design problems."[122] Nevertheless, the authors furnished designers with a tool that could be readily, almost instantly, understood (fig. 45), and the atlas has enjoyed wide circulation.[123] The idea of a geometrical approach to synthesis has been exploited by others in more recent publications,[124] and it is likely that many more variations ...

— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson

... in his brain, Hal Surtaine sat and pondered in his private study at home. His musings arraigned before him for judgment and contrast the two women who had so stormily wrought upon his new life. Esme Elliot had played with his love, had exploited it, made of it a tinsel ornament for vanity, sought, through it, to corrupt him from the hard-won honor of his calling. She had given him her lips for a lure; she had played, soul and body, the petty cheat with a high and ennobling passion. Yet, because she played within the rules by the world's ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... exploited his war record, his reputation as a railroad wrecker, and his evasion of the income tax.[1525] The accusation of "railroad wrecking" was scarcely sustained, but his income tax was destined to bring him trouble. Nast kept his pencil busy. One cartoon, displaying ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

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