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/ˈɛksplˌɔɪt/ /ˌɛksplˈɔɪt/ Listen

noun

Exploit n.

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great. "Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises."

Combat; war. (Obs.) "He made haste to exploit some warlike service."

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. (Recent)

Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon. (Recent) "In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés or make his capital "out of" anybody else."

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Etymology of 'Exploit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exploit" Quotes from Famous Books

... theory that the richest colors, the sweetest scents were those of blossoms that bloomed for pure joy. The most delicate flavors were those of fruits and berries that grew without restraint or guidance. "Nature is at her best," he explained, "when you do not try to exploit her. Compare wild strawberries and wild asparagus with the truck the farmers give you. Is wisteria useful? What equals the color of the judas-tree in bloom? Do fruit blossoms, utilitarian embryo, compare ...

— Riviera Towns • Herbert Adams Gibbons

... society set—and, like the latter, freely commented upon by bummers and bawds. She has the excuse of necessity for the sale of her picture, while her sisters in society are driven solely by a prurient itch for notoriety to exploit themselves in the public prints. It does not necessarily follow, as the sassiety sheets would have us believe, that every woman is unchaste whose portrait is found in a cigarette package—I have seen Queen Victoria's, Mrs. ...

— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... 'goes through' the pockets of the insensible wretch, and confiscates all he finds. Again, a vile woman has robbed one of her visitors, and with the money in her pocket goes to a dram-shop. The sum may be ten dollars or it may be two hundred. A glass or so unlooses her tongue; she boasts of her exploit, and perhaps shows her booty. Not once in a dozen times will she take this booty away. If there are only a few women in the shop, the liquor-seller will most likely pounce on her at once and get the money by force. There is no redress. To ...

— Cast Adrift • T. S. Arthur

... as she had company below." Then the three sat down on the floor, and Jenny and Charlie planned a midnight attack upon the tin boiler. Amy, who was more sedate and cautious, advised them to desist; but 'twas just the exploit for Jenny's frolicsome, mischievous temperament. Charlie was to take a pillow-case, and creep softly under the bed, and fill it from the supposed contents of the mysterious boiler, while Jenny stood at the kitchen door ...

— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton

... though we were protected by half a dozen rifles," replied the captain, who had been the leader in the venturesome exploit. ...

— Four Young Explorers - Sight-Seeing in the Tropics • Oliver Optic

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