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exploitable

exploitable

1 4.9
Can be used or developed to gain an advantage
  • adjective
  • /ɪkˈsplɔɪtəbl/
translation icon : explotable
  • The company identified a new exploitable market for its innovative product.
  • exploitable biomass
  • exploitable resources
  • exploitable labor

And the closer you play to them, the less exploitable you are.

Examples

  • The amount of commercially exploitable timber on production forestland is easily understated by companies to gain permission for conversion to oil palm.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Tribes with few exploitable resources are being approached by governments and corporations to consider the economic possibilities.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The United States needs a readily exploitable source of cheap labor.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Many of these year classes still comprise the major portion of the exploitable population.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The current exploitable biomass has been estimated to range between 1.9 and 2.6 million tons.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Thus, there appears to be continuing good recruitment entering the exploitable population to sustain the stock at its present abundant level.

    Academic text (1992)

  • An added benefit of siting wind farms farther from shore is that the exploitable wind resource is superior.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Access to exploitable family labor, suppliers, and distributors, and working long hours helped Gujarati traders outperform their white counterparts.

    Academic text (2005)

  • However, environmental factors may result in both considerable annual and decadal-scale variation in the exploitable lobster population and hence landings.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Researchers discovered exploitable renewable energy sources that could benefit the local economy.

Synonyms

abusable
vsexploitable
1 6.8

Someone can use it in a harmful or wrong way

is about being used for benefit rather than being vulnerable to misuse
utilizable
vsexploitable
6.6

Can be used for a practical purpose

is used especially to gain advantage or benefit
appropriable
vsexploitable
  • Formal
9.1

Can be legally taken and used for a particular purpose

is used to gain advantage rather than to be taken as property

Antonyms

unusable
16 2.3

Damaged or broken so it does not work

How Useful

ideal
203 4.2
useful
947 1.0
exploitable
1 4.9
usable
64 2.3
useless
550 1.0

Surface Forms

exploitable positive

Morphology

exploitable = exploit (transparent) = exploit + able

The adjective is a straightforward -able derivative of 'exploit', meaning 'able to be used or developed', which a learner who knows 'exploit' can derive.

Etymology

Exploitable comes from the word exploit, which originally meant 'to use' or 'make useful'. So, if something is exploitable in this neutral sense, it is 'able to be used or developed' for a particular purpose.