exploiter

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

exploit +‎ -er

Noun

exploiter (plural exploiters)

  1. One who exploits.
Translations

Etymology 2

Irregular adoption of French exploiter.

Verb

exploiter (third-person singular simple present exploiters, present participle exploitering, simple past and past participle exploitered)

  1. to make use of.
    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] ‎, London: Folio Society, published 2008, page 296:
      Not only must she receive unheard-of personal favours […] , but she must immediately write about them and exploiter them professionally.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French esploitier (with /k/ reinserted per the Latin etymon), from earlier espleitier, from Vulgar Latin *explicitāre, a frequentative of Latin explicāre. Morphologically a doublet of expliciter.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛk.splwa.te/
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Verb

exploiter

  1. (transitive) to exploit
  2. (transitive) to operate
    La Société de transport de Montréal exploite un réseau de 68 stations de métro.
    The Société de transport de Montréal operates a network of 68 metro stations.

Conjugation
Conjugation of exploiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple exploiter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple exploitant
/ɛk.splwa.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle exploité
/ɛk.splwa.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present exploite
/ɛk.splwat/		 exploites
/ɛk.splwat/		 exploite
/ɛk.splwat/		 exploitons
/ɛk.splwa.tɔ̃/		 exploitez
/ɛk.splwa.te/		 exploitent
/ɛk.splwat/
imperfect exploitais
/ɛk.splwa.tɛ/		 exploitais
/ɛk.splwa.tɛ/		 exploitait
/ɛk.splwa.tɛ/		 exploitions
/ɛk.splwa.tjɔ̃/		 exploitiez
/ɛk.splwa.tje/		 exploitaient
/ɛk.splwa.tɛ/
past historic2 exploitai
/ɛk.splwa.te/		 exploitas
/ɛk.splwa.ta/		 exploita
/ɛk.splwa.ta/		 exploitâmes
/ɛk.splwa.tam/		 exploitâtes
/ɛk.splwa.tat/		 exploitèrent
/ɛk.splwa.tɛʁ/
future exploiterai
/ɛk.splwa.tʁe/		 exploiteras
/ɛk.splwa.tʁa/		 exploitera
/ɛk.splwa.tʁa/		 exploiterons
/ɛk.splwa.tʁɔ̃/		 exploiterez
/ɛk.splwa.tʁe/		 exploiteront
/ɛk.splwa.tʁɔ̃/
conditional exploiterais
/ɛk.splwa.tʁɛ/		 exploiterais
/ɛk.splwa.tʁɛ/		 exploiterait
/ɛk.splwa.tʁɛ/		 exploiterions
/ɛk.splwa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 exploiteriez
/ɛk.splwa.tə.ʁje/		 exploiteraient
/ɛk.splwa.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present exploite
/ɛk.splwat/		 exploites
/ɛk.splwat/		 exploite
/ɛk.splwat/		 exploitions
/ɛk.splwa.tjɔ̃/		 exploitiez
/ɛk.splwa.tje/		 exploitent
/ɛk.splwat/
imperfect2 exploitasse
/ɛk.splwa.tas/		 exploitasses
/ɛk.splwa.tas/		 exploitât
/ɛk.splwa.ta/		 exploitassions
/ɛk.splwa.ta.sjɔ̃/		 exploitassiez
/ɛk.splwa.ta.sje/		 exploitassent
/ɛk.splwa.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — exploite
/ɛk.splwat/		 — exploitons
/ɛk.splwa.tɔ̃/		 exploitez
/ɛk.splwa.te/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants
  • → German: exploitieren

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