Word Finder - exploited

definition

To use for one’s own advantage.

synonyms

• take advantage of
• use

definition

To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.

example

Materialistic monsters who exploit "kind" folks will not have good outcomes, no matter how much comforts were ill-gained.

A company has exploited and improved the industry.

The system was exploitedby attackers to access sensitive information or run arbitrary code on an affected machine.

Mines can only be exploited in virtue of an imperial irade.

That domestic misfortune was cleverly exploited by King Milan's enemies in the country and abroad, and did him more harm than all his political mistakes.

The public was exploited for many years with impunity for the benefit of private interests.

The alleged grievance was, however, exploited to the utmost extent by the Nationalist party.

The program was retained in the BBC archives, but never commercially exploited in terms of either a DVD or VHS release.

The goldfields are exploited with American capital, and yield a fair return.

Among the "harbours of incense" exploited by various Pharaohs during some twentyfive centuries it is impossible to believe that the island could be missed by the Egyptian galleys on their way to the "Land of Punt," identified by several writers with Somaliland; nor that, though the roadsteads of the African coast were perhaps oftener frequented, and for other freights besides myrrh and frankincense, the shores of Sokotra were neglected by such ardent explorers as those, for instance, of Queen Hatshepsut of the r8th dynasty.

Above all, he was determined that the empire should be governed in the true sense of the word and no longer exploited by its rulers, and he kept a strict control over the legati, who, under the form of military subordination, were responsible to him for the administration of their provinces.

The colonial period was marked by the destruction of the ancient Indian civilization, the extermination of many entire tribes, and the enslavement of the survivors, who were exploited to the utmost for the benefit of Spanish officials and adventurers.

The shipping trade is considerable, but as a trans-Atlantic port Galway was exploited unsuccessfully.

This mercantile brotherhood, formerly a privileged class, alone exploited the mastic trade; at the same time the Greeks were allowed to retain their rights of self-government and continued to exercise their industries.

Under his command the Serbs quickly succeeded in breaking the power of the Dahias, as the four chieftains of the Janissaries of Belgrade were called, who, having rebelled against the sultan, took possession of Servia, became its political and military masters, and exploited the country as their own private property.

He exploited also the townspeoples need for security and the instinct of independence which made them claim a definite place in the feudal hierarchy.

The Church of France was isolated from the papacy by the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438) only to be exploited and enslaved by royalty.

Versailles sterilized all the idle upper classes, exploited the industrious classes by its extravagance, and more and more broke relations between king and kingdom.

The situation was exploitedby attackers to access sensitive information and to run arbitrary code on an affected machine.

The baths of Bath (Aquae Sulis) are exploited.

Issued by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, known as NCMEC, an Amber Alert notifies the public that a child has been abducted.

Copper is mined and extensive deposits of petroleum and asphalt are being exploited.

Meanwhile the labour traffic, which had been initiated, so far as the, Pacific islands were concerned, by an unsuccessful attempt in 1847 to employ New Hebridean labourers on a settlement near the present township of Eden in New South Wales, had attained considerable proportions, had been improperly exploited and, as already indicated, had led the natives to retaliation, sometimes without discernment, a notorious example of this (as was generally considered) being the murder of Bishop Patteson in 1871.

A small southern belt in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties is not being commercially exploited.

The production of this lode declined in 1876, but the total production of this country was increased by discoveries in Colorado (Leadville) and Nevada (Eureka); and in more recent years silver-producing areas in other states (Montana, Utah, Idaho) have been exploited.

Various other minerals in addition to gold have been discovered, and several of them, notably copper and silver (the latter appearing with the gold deposits), may probably be profitably exploited.

The earlier sources of the ores appear to have been in India; the Greeks, however, obtained it from the Chalybes, who dwelt on the south coast of the Black Sea; and the Romans, besides drawing from these deposits, also exploited Spain, Elba and the province of Noricum.

Townshend's intention of using customs dues to raise revenue exploited what most politicians thought was American acquiescence in ' external ' taxation.

In the music industry, licensing is frequently used by copyright assignees, so the work can be exploited by professionals.

Similarly, the British exploited Arab discontent with Turkish rule to extend their own empire in the Middle East during the First World War.

This basis for a naturally fibrous (and therefore ' chewy ') texture has been exploited in the formulation of meat analogs.

That apparent gaffe was exploited to the full by Tony Blair in the Commons but he may well have helped the Lib Dem cause.

The similarities between mammalian genomes can be exploited in a variety of ways.

These errors can be exploited by wily hackers to compromise the security of systems running these programs.

Therapeutic opportunities The ability of the brain to use ketones was only once exploited for therapeutic purposes.

There is a world of cell phone wallpapers just waiting to be exploited.

The heavy timber in the south-eastern counties (cypress, &c.), and even scattered stands of such valuable woods as walnut, white oak and red-gum, have already been considerably exploited.

The bedded haematites and limonites have been little exploited.

With their similar looks and cool reserve, he and Sofia were often mistaken for brother and sister by other Guardians, a convenient cover they exploited when she moved to Miami.

Comment from Nicholas Conway, of Wordwave Caselex will tap into national case law which will then be exploited at a European level.

Farmers suffer too, exploited by supermarkets, overwhelmed by red tape and fighting unfair competition from abroad.

He further exploited the Charlemagne tradition for the benefit of the continental system, that great engine of commercial war by which he hoped to assure the ruin of England.

The inference was inevitable that, as German affairs were about to be profitably exploited by France in the bargains then beginning at Rastatt, she must throw her chief energies into the Egyptian expedition.

In this way land-hunger exploited the Albigensian, as political and commercial motives had helped to exploit the Fourth Crusade; and in the former, as in the latter, Innocent had reluctantly to consent to the results of the secular motives which had infected a spiritual enterprise.

In Tannhauser and Lohengrin Wagner's intellectual power develops far more rapidly in the drama than in the music. The Sangerkrieg, with its disastrous conflict between the sincere but unnatural asceticism of the orthodox Minnesingers and the irrepressible human passion of Tannhauser, is a conception the vitality of which would reduce Tannhauser's repentance to the level of Robert le Diable, were it not that the music of the Sangerkrieg has no structural power, and little distinction beyond a certain poetic value in the tones of violas which had long ago been fully exploited by Mozart and Mehul, while the music of Tannhauser's pilgrimage ranks with the Vorspiel to Lohengrin as a wonderful foreshadowing of Wagner's mature style.

However much the administrators may have fallen short in actual practice, the Spanish ideal was to preserve and civilize the native races, rather than to establish lucrative trading posts where the natives might be easily exploited.

There exists the risk that some BATCo Operating company has replaced the reentry product this could also be exploited by the competition.

A case study is presented, in which aspects of the nervous and endocrine systems are exploited to create a simple robot controller.

Spawning scabbard fish are known from further south off Portugal and Madeira where they are commercially exploited.

The condition of individual specimens can be exploited to aid in establishing the taphonomy of the assemblage.

The Irons exploited space and forced Steve Butler to make a series of upfield clearances.