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Exploit
//ˈɛksplɔɪt// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A heroic or extraordinary deed.
"Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt."
- 2 a notable achievement wordnet
- 3 An achievement.
"The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit."
- 4 A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
"One of the more publicized cases that involved a zero-day exploit concerned the compromise of some U.S. military web servers. The attack involved exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core Windows component; […]"
- 5 An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others. Internet, broadly
Verb
- 1 To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit. transitive
"to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way"
- 2 use or manipulate to one's advantage wordnet
- 3 To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage. transitive
"Materialistic people who exploit others will come to a bad end."
- 4 draw from; make good use of wordnet
- 5 work excessively hard wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).
Etymology 2
From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).
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