exploiter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

exploit +‎ -er

Noun

exploiter (plural exploiters)

1. One who exploits.

Translations

one who exploits

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剝削者／剥削者 (zh) (bōxuēzhě), 剥削者 (zh) (bōxuēzhě)

• Czech: vykořisťovatel (cs) m
• Esperanto: ekspluatanto
• Finnish: riistäjä (fi)
• French: exploiteur (fr) m, exploiteuse (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Ausbeuter (de) m, Ausbeuterin (de) f
• Hungarian: kizsákmányoló (hu)
• Irish: brabúsaí m
• Japanese: 搾取者 (さくしゅしゃ, sakushusha)
• Portuguese: explorador (pt) m
• Russian: эксплуата́тор (ru) m (ekspluatátor), эксплуата́торша (ru) f (ekspluatátorša)

Etymology 2

Irregular adoption of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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, Folio Society 2008, p. 296:

     Not only must she receive unheard-of personal favours [...], but she must immediately write about them and exploiter them professionally.

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *explicitāre, a frequentative form of explicāre, explicō. Doublet of expliciter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.splwa.te/

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Verb

exploiter

1. (transitive) to exploit

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).

Related terms

• exploit
• exploité
• exploiteur

Further reading

• “exploiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.