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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

... and a congregation of savages entered suddenly a wonderful man, completely in the confidence of their God, whom he treated colloquially and exploited very much as a newspaper reporter would exploit a foreign potentate. But, unlike the newspaper reporter, he never allowed his listeners to forget that he, and not He, was the centre of attraction. With a voice of silver and with imagery borrowed from the auction-room, he built ...

— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling

... to be exploited. Singly, we are no match for you, but together, we can dictate our own terms. Because two or three of us can keep up the pace you set, is no reason why we should allow the others to be overworked. It is ...

— Just Patty • Jean Webster

... Balkanized herself: not only the War came from the Balkans, but also many ideas, which have been largely exploited in parliamentary and newspaper circles. Listening to many speeches and being present at many events to-day leaves the sensation of being in Belgrade ...

— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti

... or an Englishman conducting such a business is almost entirely unknown. American men raise the girlhood, make the laws and elect the officials whereby this bloody business may be carried on and exploited by a foaming pack of foreign hell-hounds, who after their work of death is accomplished and their coffers filled, go home to their South Europe or Turkish haunts with their blood and soul money, to lives of filth and idleness in their ...

— Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls • Jean Turner-Zimmermann

... expected to be otherwise engaged. We do not remember coming across a more fascinating volume, even to a somewhat blase reader whose business it is to read all that comes in his way. The marvels miracles they should be called, of the modern workshop are here exploited by Mr. Williams for the benefit of readers who have not the opportunity of seeing these wonders or the necessary mathematical knowledge to understand a scientific treatise on their working. Only the simplest language is used and every effort ...

— Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language • Cecil G. Dolmage

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