exploiter
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
exploiter (plural exploiters)
- One who exploits.
Translations edit
one who exploits
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Etymology 2 edit
Irregular adoption of French exploiter.
Verb edit
exploiter (third-person singular simple present exploiters, present participle exploitering, simple past and past participle exploitered)
- to make use of.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] [1], London: Folio Society, published 2008, page 296:
- Not only must she receive unheard-of personal favours […] , but she must immediately write about them and exploiter them professionally.
French edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Verb edit
exploiter
- (transitive) to exploit
- (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 edit
Conjugation of exploiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | exploiter | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → German: exploitieren
Further reading edit
- “exploiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.