exploiter

• Rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)

From exploit + -er.

exploiter (plural exploiters)

1. One who exploits.
   • 2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 July 2020:

     And then came others, possessing weaponry and a sophisticated support before which tribes in dense jungles had no recourse: European concessionaires and feckless traders, brutish exploiters and enslavers.

Irregular adoption of French exploiter.

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

1. (transitive) To make use of (something).
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 347:

     Not only must she receive unheard-of personal favors and spiritual graces from her Saviour, but she must immediately write about them and exploiter them professionally, and use her expertness to give instruction to those less privileged.

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.splwa.te/

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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.

• exploit
• exploitation
• exploité
• exploiteur

• → German: exploitieren

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