English
superexploit
From super- + exploit.
Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to fold, plait, weave’
Latin plicō ‘to fold’
Latin explicō ‘to unfold’
Latin explicātus ‘unfolded, unfurled, uncoiled, loosened,…’
Old French esploit ‘income’
English exploit
Today it means
verb To exploit (a worker) to a particularly severe degree.
Sources
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