Definition of "exploit"

exploit

/ˈɛksplɔɪt/

noun
plural exploits
1. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
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  Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.
  c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, Act I
2. An achievement.
3. (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
  Quotations
  One of the more publicized cases that involved a zero-day exploit concerned the compromise of some U.S. military web servers. The attack involved exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core Windows component; […]
  2004, Rob Shein, Zero-Day Exploit: Countdown to Darkness‎, Syngress, page xxi
  For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.
  2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook, page 148
4. (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
third-person singular simple present exploits, present participle exploiting, simple past and past participle exploited
1. (transitive) To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
  Quotations
  However, exploiting their 110mph capability will initially only be possible north of Bedford, pending an upgrade of the overhead wires between Bedford and St Pancras by Network Rail to make them suitable for use by electric trains at over 100mph.
  2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53
2. (transitive) To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.

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