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What is the verb for exploitation?

What's the verb for exploitation? Here's the word you're looking for.

exploit
  1. (transitive) To use for one’s own advantage.
  2. (transitive) To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Services that exploit the higher bandwidth available with 3G have to be marketed to consumers.”
      “The effect was to make it easier for the ruling class to exploit the peasants who formed the bulk of the population.”
exploitate
  1. (proscribed, nonstandard, transitive) To exploit.
exploiter
  1. to make use of.
exploits
exploitered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of exploiter
exploited
  1. simple past tense and past participle of exploit
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He said the defendants had exploited in an unlawful manner information they obtained while in a position of trust in his employment.”
      “With seconds remaining Philips exploited space on the blind side from a scrum on the French 10-metre line.”
      “Teenage girls should be modeling teenage clothes in a appropriate environment, they should not be exploited.”
exploitering
  1. present participle of exploiter
exploiting
  1. present participle of exploit
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Instead they try to gain advantage by exploiting economies of scale and network effects.”
      “In other words, he is taking advantage of, or exploiting, the local people and their customs in the furtherance of his own career.”
      “This is all about me baby, and my dream of accumulating a vast fortune by exploiting the stupidity of the reading audience.”
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