to exploit resources
1exploit — ex‧ploit [ɪkˈsplɔɪt] verb [transitive] 1. to use something fully and effectively in order to gain a profit or advantage: • New TV companies are fully exploiting the potential of satellite transmission. • the ways in which natural resources are… …
2exploit — ♦♦♦ exploits, exploiting, exploited (The verb is pronounced [[t]ɪksplɔ͟ɪt[/t]]. The noun is pronounced [[t]e̱ksplɔɪt[/t]].) 1) VERB If you say that someone is exploiting you, you think that they are treating you unfairly by using your work or… …
3Exploit — can mean: *Exploit (computer security) *Exploit (online gaming) *Exploit (natural resources) *Exploit (sociology)*An achievement. The first summit of mount Everest was a stunning exploit. *The longest river on the island of Newfoundland is called …
4resources — n. 1) to develop; exploit, tap resources 2) to husband; marshall; pool, share one s resources 3) economic; natural; untapped resources (to exploit natural resources) 4) the resources to + inf. (we have the resources to do the job) * * * exploit… …
5exploit — 01. A lot of rich people [exploit] the poor to get their money. 02. In old China, capitalists [exploited] the poor by making them work for almost nothing. 03. The [exploitation] of children in developing countries will continue as long as people… …
6exploit — I UK [ɪkˈsplɔɪt] / US [ɪkˈsplɔɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms exploit : present tense I/you/we/they exploit he/she/it exploits present participle exploiting past tense exploited past participle exploited ** 1) to treat someone unfairly in order… …
7exploit — ex|ploit1 [ ık splɔıt ] verb transitive ** 1. ) to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself: Children are being exploited in many of these factories. 2. ) to use a situation so that you get benefit from it, even if it is… …
8exploit — ex|ploit1 W3 [ıkˈsplɔıt] v [T] [Date: 1500 1600; : Old French; Origin: esploit result, success , from Latin explicitus, from explicare; EXPLICATE] 1.) to treat someone unfairly by asking them to do things for you, but giving them very little in… …
9exploit*/ — [ɪkˈsplɔɪt] verb [T] I 1) to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself Children are being exploited in many of these factories.[/ex] 2) to use a situation so that you get an advantage from it, even if it is wrong or unfair… …
10exploit — [14] Latin explicāre (source of English explicate and explicit) meant ‘unfold’. A Vulgar Latin descendant of its past participle was *explictum ‘something unfolded’, which passed into Old French as exploit or esplait. In the process, the original …
