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English
Etymology
From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).
Pronunciation
Noun
exploit (plural exploits)
- A heroic or extraordinary deed.
- c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I:
- Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.
- An achievement.
- The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.
- (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
- 2004, Rob Shein, Zero-Day Exploit: Countdown to Darkness, Syngress, →ISBN, page xxi:
- 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; […]
- 2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook, page 148:
- For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.
- (by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
Derived terms
Translations
heroic or extraordinary deed
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achievement
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computing security
Verb
exploit (third-person singular simple present exploits, present participle exploiting, simple past and past participle exploited)
- (transitive) To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
- Synonyms: take advantage of, use, utilize
- to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way
- 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
- However, exploiting their 110mph capability will initially only be possible north of Bedford, pending an upgrade of the overhead wires between Bedford and St Pancras by Network Rail to make them suitable for use by electric trains at over 100mph.
- (transitive) To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.
- Coordinate terms: take advantage of, abuse, misuse
- Materialistic people who exploit others will come to a bad end.
Derived terms
Translations
exploit — see take advantage of
use for one’s advantage
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Dutch
Etymology 1
From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).
Alternative forms
- exploot
Pronunciation
Noun
exploit n (plural exploiten, diminutive exploitje n)
- (law) a legal document which proves that another document has been handed over to a certain person
Descendants
- → Indonesian: eksploit
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
exploit m (plural exploits, diminutive exploitje n)
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French
Etymology
Deverbal from exploiter. Corresponds with Old French espleit; cf. Latin explicitus.
Pronunciation
Noun
exploit m (plural exploits)
- exploit, feat
- Synonym: performance
Related terms
Descendants
- → Italian: exploit
Further reading
- “exploit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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