exploit

Plural: exploits

Noun

• a notable achievement
• A heroic or extraordinary deed.
• An achievement.
• A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
• An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.

Verb

Verb Forms: exploited, exploiting, exploits

• To make full use of and benefit from.
• use or manipulate to one's advantage
  • "He exploit the new taxation system"
• draw from; make good use of
  • "we must exploit the resources we are given wisely"
• work excessively hard
  • "he is exploiting the students"
• To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
• To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.

Examples

• A clever player will exploit every premium square on the Scrabble board.
• Materialistic people who exploit others will come to a bad end.
• The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.
• to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way

Synonyms

effort, feat, overwork, tap, work, take advantage of, use, utilize

Anagrams of exploit