verb/ɛk.splwa.te/
to exploit; 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.
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.