exploit
/ˈɛksplɔɪt/
exploit noun: a heroic or extraordinary deed.
Noun
exploit (plural exploits)
- 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.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
- An achievement.
- The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.
- 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; […]2004, Rob Shein, Zero-Day Exploit: Countdown to Darkness, Syngress, →ISBN, page xxi
- For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook, page 148
- An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
Verb
IPA/ɪksˈplɔɪt/
exploit (third-person singular simple present exploits, present participle exploiting, simple past and past participle exploited)
- To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
- to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way
- 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.2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53
- Synonyms:
- take advantage of, use, utilize
- To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.
- Materialistic people who exploit others will come to a bad end.
exploit meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
exploit in Hindi
- to exploit
- दुहना duhnā
exploit in Marathi
- शोषण करणे
exploit in Urdu
- عمل, بہادری, کارنامہ, کھسوٹنا
exploit in Bengali
- কাজে লাগানো, সদ্ব্যবহার করা, অন্যায়ভাবে সুবিধা নেওয়া, শোষণ করা
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- exploit in Malayalam
- ചൂഷണപ്പെടുത്തുക cūṣaṇappeṭuttuka
- exploit in Kannada
- ಸ್ವಂತಕ್ಕೆ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು, ಲಾಭಕರವಾಗಿ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವಿಕೆ, ವೀರಕೃತ್ಯ, ಸಾಹಸಕೃತ್ಯ
- exploit in Punjabi
- ਚੂੰਡਣਾ cūṇḍṇā, ਲੁੱਟਣਾ luṭṭaṇā
- exploit in Gujarati
- શોષણ કરવું
- exploit in Odia
- ଶୋଷଣ କରିବା
- exploit in Nepali
- दल्नु dalnu
- exploit in Arabic
- مَأْثُرَة maʔṯura, اِسْتَغَلَّ istaḡalla
Examples of exploit in a sentence
- The company was granted the exclusive right to exploit the oil resources of the province.
- The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.
- Remember to sanitize your query parameters to avoid SQL injection exploits.
Synonyms of exploit
Forms of exploit
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | exploits |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | exploits |
| present participle | exploiting |
| past participle | exploited |
| past | exploited |
Origin of exploit
From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).
Words formed from exploit
Words that rhyme with exploit
Questions about exploit
- What does exploit mean?
- Exploit means a heroic or extraordinary deed.
- What is exploit in Hindi?
- Exploit in Hindi is दुहना (duhnā). See Exploit meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is exploit?
- Exploit can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce exploit?
- Exploit is pronounced /ˈɛksplɔɪt/.
- What is the plural of exploit?
- The plural of exploit is exploits.
Words near exploit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exploit (page history and authors); दुहना (Hindi) (page history and authors); exploit (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); exploit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Exploit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ചൂഷണപ്പെടുത്തുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); exploit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਚੂੰਡਣਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); exploit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); exploit (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); दल्नु (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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