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Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

your actions
actionYou should take responsibility for your own actions.
actThis was considered to be an act of war.
thingThat’s the last thing you should be doing if you’re pregnant.
activityNot all of her business activities were scrupulously clean.
moveApplying for that job was a good move.
deedTheir evil deeds must not go unpunished.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Acting and acts
(your) every moveidiom
-ence
act
act for someone
act/do something on your own responsibilityidiom
ADL
agency
ant
beat
er
execution
exercise in something
move
put your money where your mouth isidiom
responsibility
role-play
rot
step
stuff
talk

exploit | American Dictionary

exploit
noun[ C ]
us/ˈek·splɔɪt/
a brave, interesting, or unusual act:
daredevil exploits
He is not content to limit himself to his exploits on the basketball court.
exploit
verb[ T ]
us/ɪkˈsplɔɪt/

exploitverb[T] (USE WELL)

to use something for your own benefit:
The two companies joined forces to exploit the potential of the Internet.

exploitverb[T] (USE UNFAIRLY)

to use someone unfairly for your own advantage:
Factories here are coming under criticism for exploiting workers.

exploit | Business English

exploit
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪkˈsplɔɪt/us
to use or develop something for profit or progress in business:
exploit resources/technology/informationWe need to make sure that we exploit our resources as fully as possible.
exploit opportunities/potential
This collection of valuable sound recordings has never been commercially exploited.
disapproving
to treat someone unfairly in order to make money or get an advantage:
Laws exist to stop companies exploiting their employees.
These unfortunate people have been ruthlessly exploited.
often disapproving
to use something, often unfairly, for your own advantage:
exploit a loophole/weakness/vulnerabilityThese are responsible employers who are not seeking to exploit loopholes in the legislation.
People exploit the system by lodging multiple appeals.

exploitable

adjectiveuk /ɪkˈsplɔɪtəbl̩/ us /-ṱə-/
The coal mine is no longer commercially exploitable.

Examples of exploit

exploit
Although establishing new schools is not permitted, there is always a loophole that can be exploited.
In approaching their prospects, network marketers enjoy the privilege of exploiting the element of intimacy by reducing the potential threat to their prospects' negative face.
It aggressively exploits the parallelism made possible by sending requests to multiple remote data sources simultaneously and by scheduling tasks to run on multiple processors.
The semantics of the language is based on a translation, and it exploits abstract data types rather than polymorphic types and recursion.
In that context, the evidence for language-selective performance may be understood as a default condition that occurs when initial conceptual selection processes can be exploited.
This had a direct impact on the peace movement, which wanted to exploit those very consequences for the cause of disarmament.
Therefore, white-vented mynas probably preferred the green patches among residential buildings, as this may have allowed them to more efficiently exploit ephemeral anthropogenic food sources.
To exploit the information, we decided to use the two surveys as independent datasets, each with distinctive information about contemporaneous social exchange.
It falls to cantors to employ these variegated techniques within the given framework and to exploit multiple possibilities of ornamentation.
We hope that this paper will go some way to raising awareness of the possibilities for exploiting this work.
For one, postmodernists exploited the ironic possibilities of the colon.
The shortage of both labor and development capital restricted families to exploiting their land extensively by woodcutting, or through specialized farming, as in market gardens.
The assumption of a simply typed base language is exploited in the inference algorithm in computing properties of variables.
Many of the algorithms discussed in this paper are able to exploit the structure of the problem to gain efficiency and save on storage.
There must be a community of professionals who understand and exploit economic opportunities.
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