EXPLOIT meaning: Utilize resource or situation advantageously

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word exploit:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

exploit: Merriam-Webster.com
exploit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
exploit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
exploit: Collins English Dictionary
exploit: Vocabulary.com
Exploit, exploit: Wordnik
exploit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
exploit: Wiktionary
exploit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
exploit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
exploit: Infoplease Dictionary
Exploit, exploit: Dictionary.com
exploit (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
exploit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Exploit (computer science), Exploit (computer security), Exploit (disambiguation), Exploit (information security), Exploit (natural resources), Exploit (online gaming), Exploit (video game), Exploit (video gaming), Exploit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Exploit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
exploit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
exploit: Rhymezone
exploit, exploit (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
exploit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
exploit: Free Dictionary
exploit: Mnemonic Dictionary
exploit: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
exploit: Dictionary/thesaurus
exploit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
Exploit: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
exploit: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)

exploit: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
exploit: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Webopedia (No longer online)
exploit: Hacking Lexicon
Technopedia (No longer online)
exploit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

exploit: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A heroic or extraordinary deed.
▸ noun:  An achievement.
▸ noun:  (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
▸ noun:  (by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.

Similar:

effort, overwork, deed, feat, tap, achievement, prowess, heroics, hero, extraordinaire, more...

Opposite:

nurture, support, protect, conserve, respect

Types:

buffer overflow, heap overflow, stack overflow, format string, integer overflow, race condition, directory traversal, more...

Phrases:

zero day exploit, zero-day exploit, Exploit kit, Video game exploit, Blackhole exploit kit, more...

Adjectives:

gallant, brilliant, remarkable, heroic, second, great, compassionate, perilous, paddy, hazardous, military

Colors:

black, red, gold, silver, bronze, dark green, navy blue, crimson, charcoal, maroon

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