Definition of "exercised" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of exercise. (verb)

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• "Furthermore, the process by which the rights of a patent are exercised is costly, damaging, and net-net ends up wasting, in my estimation, much more energy that could otherwise be put into more essential or meaningful pursuits."
• "That responsibility must be exercised from the earliest days of a child's education and the, message made clear in numerous different ways thereafter."
• "This meeting, however, proved abortive when France and Great Britain exercised their veto right to obstruct a resolution calling on"