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exploited

exploited

1 3.6
Used fully to get the most benefit
  • adjective
  • /ɪkˈsplɔɪtɪd/
translation icon : explotado
  • That capacity can be exploited for the good or for the bad.
  • Exploited Children

Examples

  • So this duality is extremely powerful and it can be exploited in in many ways.

  • How do you restore faith in an industry that has been exploited by these bad actors?

  • What you want is you want all that to be exploited in the poem and to do work.

  • But I mean, every technology is is is been exploited for either is pornography and military, right?

  • And yet those returns aren't being exploited, which suggests again, bottlenecks.

  • And that's now being exploited by movies where we kind of our brains haven't caught up.

  • Now by the way, there's no structure being exploited, total number of flops that go down in each case identical.

  • But the, the to date, like there isn't anything that we have found that we have noticed was exploited in the wild prior to us discovering it.

  • The new software is being exploited to improve our productivity significantly.

  • The company's resources were exploited to their fullest potential during the project.

Synonyms

used
vsexploited
1 1.0

Showing signs of wear from being handled a lot

is taken to the highest possible advantage or effect
harnessed
vsexploited
4.6

Put under control and used to make energy

aims to get the maximum benefit from something
developed
vsexploited
3.2

Land made useful by building houses, roads or other improvements

focuses on gaining maximum advantage rather than physical improvement

Antonyms

unexploited
1 6.3

Resources like land, minerals and energy that people do not use or develop

wasted
1 4.2

Not producing any useful result

How Utilized

exploited
1 3.6
used
1 1.0
underused
4 3.4
unused
26 1.0

Surface Forms

exploited positive

Morphology

exploited = exploit (transparent) = exploit + ed

The word 'exploited' is transparently derived from 'exploit' with the addition of the past participle suffix '-ed'.

Etymology

Exploited comes from an old idea of 'using' something to get the best result, so an exploited opportunity or resource is one that has been used fully and to the greatest advantage.