I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exploit resources
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He exploited the mineral resources which he found under his lands.
exploit sb’s/sth’s potential (= use all the qualities that someone or something has )
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Until now, the island has not exploited its potential as a tourist destination.
use/exploit a loophole
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Airlines may be exploiting legal loopholes in order to employ pilots trained outside the US.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
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Compiled annually, it is a voluminous source which can now be fully exploited for the first time using computer techniques.
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By fully exploiting their market position currently, monopolistic firms might elicit adverse public opinion and governmental censure.
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Currently, the recogniser does not fully exploit information about the physical properties of the input.
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The photographic record alone, indeed, has still to be exploited fully by historians.
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However this is not sufficient to ensure that the research potential of the data is fully exploited .
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Both sides shall give real substance to the agreement on the creation and work of cultural centres and fully exploit them.
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Doubtless there will be many highly strategic opportunities where this humiliation will be fully exploited .
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Whether managers fully exploit the pocket of discretion thus created depends on the intensity of their own commitment to profit maximisation.
successfully
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This might be successfully exploited by exploring the past from the viewpoint of the object under scrutiny.
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By looking like a super-offspring, the cuckoo successfully exploits the normal pattern of interaction that exists between parent and young.
■ NOUN
advantage
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This is something which human beings exploit to their advantage .
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This increased exposure allows them to exploit their advantages over more ordinary mortals more easily than their predecessors could.
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Second, they may wish to exploit advantages of scale.
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Loopholes, omissions or ambiguities should not be exploited to gain an advantage incompatible with the effective control of risk.
company
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The multinational drug companies are often exploiting that knowledge in their constant search for new and more profitable drugs.
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Meanwhile the pharmaceutical companies exploit the beekeepers, who depend on them to control the mites.
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However, no decision has yet been taken on how the company will exploit its investment.
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And so, an Arizona-based company exploited that loophole, sending countless faxes to unsuspecting Californians.
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Now, plans are being made cheaper and easier, allowing mutual fund companies to exploit this previously unattractive market.
fact
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Bigamous males simply exploit the fact that females are in a hurry.
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He knows that he is not obliged to be polite, and he exploits this fact .
information
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Currently, the recogniser does not fully exploit information about the physical properties of the input.
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Because of this increase in transactions costs, the profits from exploiting company-specific information in the stock market decline.
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The competitive process arises out of disequilibrium in markets giving opportunities for entrepreneurs to exploit their superior information and earn profits.
issue
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Clinton, 49, has not sought directly to exploit the age issue in the fall campaign.
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Republicans accused him of exploiting the issue for political purposes.
loophole
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Those people are not exploiting a loophole or grabbing at a large pot of gold.
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And so, an Arizona-based company exploited that loophole , sending countless faxes to unsuspecting Californians.
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The worm exploits three security loopholes in the systems to gain root access to the server and make changes to the system.
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Simply hoping that governments will not exploit loopholes is stupid.
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Other private placements are designed mainly for issuers, often to exploit tax loopholes .
market
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By fully exploiting their market position currently, monopolistic firms might elicit adverse public opinion and governmental censure.
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We must continue to build on our strengths, and exploit the markets where they give us an edge.
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The Midland, however, cannily saw the profit to be made from exploiting the potential mass market and led the way.
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Now, plans are being made cheaper and easier, allowing mutual fund companies to exploit this previously unattractive market .
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The Group continues to have a strong balance sheet and is ideally placed to exploit market opportunities in 1993 and beyond.
opportunity
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Such a state of affairs provides the seller with a unique opportunity to exploit the relatively weak bargaining position of the investor.
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To take inherent advantages, every civilization is born of immediate opportunities , rapidly exploited .
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David Prosser reports Gordon Brown's Budget last month gave expatriate savers and investors several opportunities to exploit .
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This would not please traders, who would lose opportunities to exploit the inefficiencies of the market as it is now constituted.
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The learner is allocated to the ward for such a short period that every learning opportunity must be exploited to the full.
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A peculiar habit, or a novel structure, opens a world of opportunity that can be exploited in a myriad ways.
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The competitive process arises out of disequilibrium in markets giving opportunities for entrepreneurs to exploit their superior information and earn profits.
position
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The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position .
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By fully exploiting their market position currently, monopolistic firms might elicit adverse public opinion and governmental censure.
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There is never the feeling that in any way she is exploiting her position for her own good.
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Not getting up was his way of exploiting his position .
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It seemed to him quite possible that Dysart should exploit his official position to save an old friend from bankruptcy.
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Those filtering the information have also frequently exploited their position to select and control the flow for their own purposes.
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Many managerial positions involve the employee being both a representative of the capitalist and a worker who is in some degree exploited .
possibility
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Inevitably, composers have been quick to exploit percussion possibilities , and if anything we have suffered a period of over-use.
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Cinema directors have long exploited the expressive possibilities of the wide-angled lens.
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Planned towns were deliberate attempts to exploit the economic possibilities of a site; and like any other investment could go wrong.
potential
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The House of Andreeyev had purchased the right to exploit the commercial potential of the Manchu system.
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Man was able to exploit the potential of music only when he started writing musical scores.
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Still, Anixter has only begun to exploit its potential .
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Teaching strategies need to adapt to this new situation, to exploit the potential offered by computers.
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This positions them uniquely in exploiting the multimedia potential of their list.
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Two criticisms are frequently made of it: it is boring and it doesn't exploit the full potential of the medium.
power
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Those who exploited the potential power of the new instrument were recommended a Walter piano, which had a check.
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We can exploit video's power to present vividly situations which are unfamiliar or inaccessible to us.
situation
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Over many years in California they had acquired the know-how required to exploit a weak party situation .
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He also saw that the Communist powers were themselves divided and that diplomacy might be used to exploit this situation .
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Later bravado runs high to disguise their feelings and some of them exploit the situation for gain.
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At the same time they also exploited the current political situation for their own ends.
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If there were social unrest, a number of people would attempt to exploit the situation for their own ends.
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It wishes to exploit this situation in order to raise interest rates.
system
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She was trapped with a sexist employer who exploited a sexist legal system .
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Devi nevertheless exploits the existing system to help the underprivileged who come to her for help.
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Hanson skilfully exploited the system of proportional representation, which asks voters to list candidates in order of preference.
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Are women being exploited by a system which sees them as easy targets?
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She hopes to exploit the preferential voting system in the federal elections to unseat the ruling coalition.
technology
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Baker also plans schemes that help industry to exploit technologies developed by universities.
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The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said.
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Perhaps still more impressive is Corning's record in exploiting its technology through joint ventures, a notoriously difficult form of business.
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In addition more and more departments are exploiting the new technology in their teaching.
weakness
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Our sinister cop is able to exploit that weakness by offering a sympathetic ear.
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This short-term outlook enables them to exploit the weakness of their customers without worrying about the long-term effects on customer relations.
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Successive governments have exploited our weakness for anything tax-free with a series of investment schemes.
worker
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Thus the capitalists have economic power, controlling and exploiting the worker , and this also gives them political power as well.
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I explain that a lower price will exploit my workers .
■ VERB
fail
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No decision made will fail to be carried out, and no opportunity will fail to be exploited .
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Anyway, he did not fail to exploit his exalted status.
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His incompetence was further shown up last year when he failed to exploit the break-up of the rebel movement into three factions.
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He charges firstly that the present techniques fail to exploit the opportunity which interactive computing can offer.
hope
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The Commonwealth of Independent States unit also hopes to exploit the need for new or additional CAD/CAM systems and software.
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He also hopes to exploit the Burke's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets, burgundies and champagnes.
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The second-tier agencies hope to exploit these feelings.
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She hopes to exploit the preferential voting system in the federal elections to unseat the ruling coalition.
seek
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Clinton, 49, has not sought directly to exploit the age issue in the fall campaign.
try
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Rohan had tried to exploit her cynically for his own gain.
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On the other side, among those trying to exploit these revelations, there is almost an equal disingenuousness.
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Newcomen came up against Savery's work when he tried to exploit his steam engines.
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Fear, indeed, appears to be growing that extremists may well try to exploit public discontent.
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They therefore submitted nasty strategies, trying to exploit these anticipated softies!
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Branson would momentarily drop his guard, and McLaren would immediately try to exploit it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Britain consistently fails to exploit the scientific discoveries made in its universities.
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Christmas has been exploited for commercial reasons.
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loan sharks who exploit the poor by charging up to 1000% interest per year.
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Many 'New Age' therapists simply exploit the hopes and fears of sick people who would be better off going to their own doctor.
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Many employers are only too ready to exploit and underpay female part-time workers.
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Measure are being taken to stop employment agencies exploiting foreign workers desperate to find a job.
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Opposition leaders were quick to exploit government embarrassment over the incident.
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Peasants in remote areas of the country were being shamelessly exploited by wealthy land owners.
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The country's natural resources have not yet been fully exploited.
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The country could exploit its position as a major oil producer to push up world oil prices.
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The factory's largely Hispanic workforce is underpaid and exploited.
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We need to do a better job of exploiting our natural resources.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Maybe the firms exploited women employees or relied on child labor.
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Priests were not always above exploiting the fear.
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Second, they may wish to exploit advantages of scale.
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The core material covers the syllabus in depth, and can be exploited in different ways with different types of class.
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These ironworks were built in 173 6 and were worked for 130 years, exploiting local iron ore deposits.
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Those filtering the information have also frequently exploited their position to select and control the flow for their own purposes.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kids will love these stories about Annie Oakley's exploits.
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protests against the exploitation of children in the clothing industry
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But those in favour of the second chamber say it will survive Jamie's exploits.
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Many script kiddies are quickly caught, often because they boast of their hacking exploits or are betrayed by their internet names.
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Peden was not armed and did not take part in the band's less reputable exploits.
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Perhaps Louis was also stung by the threatened negation of his own youthful exploits on the March.
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Tales of Stan's exploits are legendary.
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This was not his last military exploit , however.
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To mention Kaptan was to devalue the exploit .