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exploitate

exploitate verb: to exploit.

Verb

exploitate (third-person singular simple present exploitates, present participle exploitating, simple past and past participle exploitated)

  1. (nonstandard, proscribed, transitive, non-native speakers' English) To exploit.

Forms of exploitate

third-person singular presentexploitates
present participleexploitating
past participleexploitated
pastexploitated

Origin of exploitate

Erroneous back-formation from exploitation.

Questions about exploitate

What does exploitate mean?
Exploitate means to exploit.
What part of speech is exploitate?
Exploitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of exploitate?
The past tense of exploitate is exploitated.

Words near exploitate in the dictionary

  1. exploitable avoidant
  2. exploitable-avoidant
  3. exploitables
  4. exploitably
  5. exploitage
  6. exploitate
  7. exploitation
  8. exploitation film
  9. exploitation films
  10. exploitational
  11. exploitationer

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