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exploit

(security)
A security hole or an instance of taking advantage of a security hole.

"[...] hackers say exploit. sysadmins say hole" -- Mike Emke.

Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If this is true, this may be a case of hackerly zero-deriving verbs (especially instantials) from nouns, akin to "write" as a noun to describe an instance of a disk drive writing to a disk.
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BEIRUT: When Rouhini first moved to Beirut 20 years ago to work as a house maid, she was isolated in a foreign country where circumstances for migrant workers remain extremely exploitive. Despite the obstacles, she built a modest but dignified life for herself.
"The plaintiff was employed under exploitive, inhumane and unfair conditions," said his former lawyer, Amit Sabag.
I don't know what frightens me more: that the CEO of a major international corporation would publically make a statement such as this, one that sound like it was torn from the pages of "Mein Kampf," or that HAPPI, a publication that I respect, would report it so casually and in such a matter-of-fact manner, and treat this exploitive lie unchallenged, as if it were absolute fact.
He challenges the assumption that this artist-animal relationship is necessarily an exploitive or else untrustworthy one.
But at the end he says if Labour formed the next government, they should plug tax loopholes, clamp down on 'exploitive privatised industries,' also supply a dignified living wage, but he wouldn't hold his breath on them doing it.
"We didn't want to make it feel exploitive; we wanted it to feel balanced and positive."
Tired of exploitive capitalism, Steven has since dedicated his expertise to serving investors with their best interest in mind, first with his own company, and now to the benefit of Insiders Strategy Group subscribers.
The boycott is also meant to show sellers, described by the action takers as "greedy and exploitive", that consumers are a force to be reckoned with.
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It was an instant hit, as fans lapped up the glamour and action of the show but critics and notably feminists panned it, labelling it exploitive.
Ramsey County prosecutors argued that the law criminalizes "exploitive, abusive behavior," the Star Tribune reported.
Of course, trafficking also causes major human rights violations, given the physical and sexual violence associated with exploitive labor; and it has a particularly deleterious effect on women's rights and gender equality.