exploiter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English exploit

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English exploiter

From exploit + -er.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• sexploiter

Translations

one who exploits

• Catalan: explotador m, explotadora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剝削者 / 剥削者 (zh) (bōxuēzhě)

• Czech: vykořisťovatel (cs) m
• Dutch: exploitant (nl) m, uitbuiter (nl) m
• Esperanto: ekspluatanto
• Finnish: riistäjä (fi), hyväksikäyttäjä (fi)
• French: exploiteur (fr) m, exploiteuse (fr) f
• Galician: explotador m, explotadora f
• German: Ausbeuter (de) m, Ausbeuterin (de) f
• Hungarian: kizsákmányoló (hu)
• Irish: brabúsaí m
• Italian: sfruttatore (it) m, sfruttatrice f
• Japanese: 搾取者 (さくしゅしゃ, sakushusha)
• Polish: wyzyskiwacz (pl) m, wyzyskiwaczka f
• Portuguese: explorador (pt) m, exploradora (pt) f, aproveitador (pt)
• Romanian: exploatator (ro) m, exploatatoare (ro) f
• Russian: эксплуата́тор (ru) m (ekspluatátor), эксплуата́торша (ru) f (ekspluatátorša)
• Spanish: explotador (es) m, explotadora (es) f
• Swahili: mnyonyaji (sw)

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. (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.

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).

Related terms

• exploit
• exploitation
• exploité
• exploiteur

Descendants

• → German: exploitieren

Further reading

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