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exploits

exploits is the plural of exploit.

exploits is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exploit.

Meaning of exploit

Noun

exploit (plural exploits)

  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.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
  2. An achievement.
    • The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.
  3. 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
  4. (Internet, broadly) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.

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Questions about exploits

What is exploits the plural of?
Exploits is the plural of exploit.

Words near exploits in the dictionary

  1. exploiteth
  2. exploiting
  3. exploitive
  4. exploitively
  5. exploitiveness
  6. exploits
  7. exploiture
  8. exploitures
  9. exploity
  10. explorability
  11. explorable

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