1 : to make productive use of : utilize exploiting your talents exploit your opponent's weakness. 2 : to make use of meanly or unfairly for one's own advantage exploiting migrant farm workers.

What does it mean to exploit a situation?

transitive verb. If you say that someone is exploiting a situation, you disapprove of them because they are using it to gain an advantage for themselves, rather than trying to help other people or do what is right.

How do you exploit someone?

To exploit someone is to take unfair advantage of them. It is to use another person's vulnerability for one's own benefit. Of course, benefitting from another's vulnerability is not always morally wrong—we do not condemn a chess player for exploiting a weakness in his opponent's defense, for instance.