Meaning of exploit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
2. An achievement.
3. A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
4. An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
   Internet, broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.”

“The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.”

“One of the more publicized cases that involved a zero-day exploit concerned the compromise of some U.S. military web servers. The attack involved exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core Windows component; […]”

“For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.”

CEFR level