Exploited
[iks'plɔitid]
Definition
(adj.) developed or used to greatest advantage .
(adj.) of persons; taken advantage of; 'after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used' .
Edited by Caleb--From WordNet
Examples
- It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Music, astronomy, logic, and even theology, might be exploited as aids to public speech. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He exploited mines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Edison's system was commercially exploited for several years by the Automatic Telegraph Company, as related in the preceding narrative. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Probably no organized piece of machinery has ever been so systematically exploited, so thoroughly advertised, so persistently canvassed, and so extensively sold as the sewing machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars had been spent on the experiments, and, largely without Edison's consent, the battery had been very generally exploited in the press. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This system was exploited through the use of a moderately paid clerical force. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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