exploiter (eksploiter)

t. [ It is sad to see the well-meaning, but ignorant, disciples of this Church in America exp loitered by a twofold jesuitry. Theodore Parker , Sermons on Theism, Atheism, [and Popular Theology. exploit ure (eks-ploi'tūr), n. [ exploit + -ure .] The act of exploiting. The commentaries of Julius Cæsar, which he made of his exploit ure in Fraunce and Britaine. Sir T. Elyot, The Govern our, i. 11. 2. To make complete use of; work up; bring explorable (eks-plōr'a-bl), a . [= F. explora- into play; utilize; cultivate. [Recent, from ble ; as explore + -able .] Capable of being ex- modern French exploiter .] plored. exploratet (eks-plō'rāt), v. t. [ exploratus , pp . of explorare , explore: see explore .] To ex- plore. Perhaps it was as well that they did not exploit that pa ion of patriotism as an advertisement. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 89. Freedom - that was the word; the right of a man to exploit his nature from the top to the bottom. J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 96. Plutarch's dialogue "On the Ce ation of Oracles" - a quarry largely exploited by the poets, but still unexhausted. N. and Q., 7th ser., I. 161. Specifically-3. To employ or utilize selfishly; turn to one's own advantage without regard to right or justice; make subservient to self-in terest. (Recent.] Better far, he [Marx) holds, for the labourer to stick to day's wages, for he can be much more easily and extensively exploited by the piece system. Rae, Contemp. Socialism, p. 166. He exploits them all for his own service. G. Allen, Colin Clout's Calendar (1883), p. 118. In the economic field as amongst animals, in the struggle for existence and in the conflict of selfish interests, the strongest will crush or exploit the weakest, unle the State, as an organ of justice, intervene to secure to each what is his due. Orpen , tr. of Lavelaye's Socialism, p. 272. The noisy, pa ionate quarrel between the two factions of the ruling about the question, which of the two hand the midwife of the truth. or may so reduce the vitality and resisting power of the ti ue of the disc and surrounding parts, as to develop gradually, or explode suddenly, into an actual inflammation-that is, into a neuritis. Alien. and Neurol ., VIII. 130. Exploding ma , in cephalopods. See extract under spermatophore .