exploit

v.利用，使用；v.剥削；n.成就

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
exploit (noun)
- deed act , especially a notable or heroic act feat
exploit (verb)
transitive verb
1.
to make productive use of - utilize exploiting your talents exploit your opponent's weakness
2.
to make use of meanly or unfairly for one's own advantage - exploiting migrant farm workers
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
exploit (noun)
1.
an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness
SYNONYMS:
deed, exploit, number, stunt, tour de force, trick
RELATED WORDS:
accomplishment, achievement, attainment, coup, success, triumph; adventure; performance
exploit (noun)
2.
something done by someone
SYNONYMS:
act, deed, doing, exploit, feat, thing
RELATED WORDS:
accomplishment, achievement, attainment; adventure, experience; emprise, enterprise, initiative, undertaking; handiwork, performance, work; stunt, trick; activity, dealing; maneuver, measure, move, operation, procedure, proceeding, step, tactic; coaction
exploit (noun)
3.
an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand
SYNONYMS:
emprise, experience, exploit, gest ( geste), happening, time
RELATED WORDS:
escapade, lark, ploy; act, action, deed, doing, feat; episode, occasion; baptism, ordeal, test, trial, tribulation; enterprise, risk, venture; expedition, exploration, mission, performance, quest, stunt
NEAR ANTONYMS:
bore, bummer, bust, downer, drag
exploit (verb)
1.
to take unfair advantage of
SYNONYMS:
abuse, capitalize (on), cash in (on), impose (on upon), leverage, milk, pimp, play (on upon), use, work
RELATED WORDS:
jerk around, manipulate, mistreat; bleed, cheat, fleece, overcharge, skin, soak, stick; commercialize, commodify
trade on, walk on
exploit (verb)
2.
to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious means
SYNONYMS:
exploit, play (upon)
RELATED WORDS:
engineer, finagle, jockey, maneuver; beguile, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, hoax, hoodwink, kid, shanghai, snow, take in, trick; intrigue, machinate, plot, scheme; arrange, contrive, devise, finesse, mastermind; cheat, chisel, con, defraud, fleece, gyp, hustle, swindle
exploit (verb)
3.
to put into action or service
SYNONYMS:
apply, employ, exercise, exploit, harness, operate, utilize
RELATED WORDS:
handle, manipulate, wield; direct, run, work; cannibalize, recycle, reuse
NEAR ANTONYMS:
ignore, neglect; misapply, misuse
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