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Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of opportunity.
Examples
“They might dwell upon the fact that you were so much together, and that you had such opportunities -- mark me, Reginald, _opportunities_ -- for tampering with the one solitary life which stood between you and fortune.”
“Typically, when you're looking for the next job, you'll do two things: search for job postings on the internet and ask all of your friends if they've heard about any "opportunities," the code word for jobs.”
“Boxers have to fight to make ends meet so financially this is a great opportunity but it's the title opportunities that I'm after.”
“Second, in doing so, we create short term opportunities for our businesses to help facilitate that participation through procurement opportunities.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Likosky: Geithner and the Post-WWII Utopian Vision
“Though MF Global is less than 1% of the value of his former firm, based on stock-market capitalization at Tuesday's close, Mr. Corzine said he was drawn by the potential to "create franchise value" and by what he called opportunities for international growth.”
“Though MF Global, which is based in New York, is less than 1% of the value of his former firm, based on stock-market capitalization at Tuesday's close, Mr. Corzine said he was drawn by the potential to "create franchise value" and by what he called opportunities for international growth.”
“Nog liked to prowl these back alleys of the station in search of what he called opportunities, but which Jake's dad called trouble.”
“Actions were taken based on the calculation of what is available in the here and now and then how best to exploit these short term opportunities - whether it is the Nike shoes in a looted shop, or bonuses in an industry that's used to dipping into the trillions that washes around it.”
“It's much more difficult to find people for those because people not looking at short term opportunities because of fear over the economy," Gordon said.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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US - What is Bill talking about - Sep...
The 100 most frequent words of Bill Clinton’s Speech to the Democratic National Convention
america, american, arithmetic, attacked, barack, believe, better, bill, budget, care, class, college and 86 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Triple Doubles and Other Multiples
inopportune, poussette, clapperless, shoelessness, didgeridoo, sheesh, storyteller, frontierless, slaughterhouse, enfeoff, plantagenet, blunderbuss and 36 more...
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