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# exploited

verb, past form of exploit (exploit, exploits, exploited, exploiting); adjective (exploited)

«exploited» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Treated unfairly by someone who uses you for their own gain, for example made to work hard for very little pay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#m1)
2. Used fully and well, such as a resource or a chance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#m2)
3. (computers) A weakness in a program that has been used by someone to break in. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#m3)

### In the lessons

In history and ethics lessons it describes workers, children or countries treated unfairly. In geography it describes natural resources that have been used: «the forest was exploited for wood». In games and computers it means a weakness was used. It tells the reader that someone took advantage. Phrases: exploited workers, feel exploited, be exploited by.

### Examples

- Long ago, many children were exploited in factories and mines. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#x1)
- The workers felt exploited because they were paid so little. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#x2)
- The team exploited every chance to score. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#x3)
- The coal under the hills was exploited for a hundred years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#x4)
- The hacker exploited a weakness in the website. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#x5)
- She felt exploited when her friends only called her for help with homework. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#x6)
- Wind power is not yet fully exploited in some countries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/#x7)

### Note

Base verb: exploit; noun: exploitation. «An exploit» (stress on EX-) can also mean a brave or exciting deed: «tales of his exploits». The verb is stressed on -PLOIT. The unfair sense is the most common and is negative; the resource sense is neutral.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «exploited» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploited/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«exploited» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/exploited.html) on Mova free.