Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A favorable or advantageous circumstance or combination of circumstances.
- n. A favorable or suitable occasion or time.
- n. A chance for progress or advancement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Fit, convenient, or seasonable time; favorable chance or occasion; favorable or favoring conjuncture of circumstances: as, to avail one's self of the opportunity to do something; to seize the opportunity.
- n. Convenience, fitness, or suitability for some particular purpose or set of circumstances.
- n. Importunity; earnestness.
- n. Character; habit. Halliwell. Synonyms Opportunity, Occasion, chance. An occasion falls in one's way, whether desired or not: as, I had occasion to speak with him; an opportunity is desired yet comes naturally when it is obtained: as, I never got a good opportunity to explain the mistake. We find, take, seek occasion; we seek, desire, find, embrace an opportunity.
Wiktionary
- n. A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
- n. A favorable circumstance or occasion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Fit or convenient time or situation; a time or place permitting or favorable for the execution of a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.
- n. obsolete Convenience of situation; fitness.
- n. obsolete Importunity; earnestness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
Examples
“Indeed, she insinuated that I was perfectly willing to squander the safety of our family just because I couldn't get a deal on batteries, wondering whether I'd ever heard the expression "opportunity cost.”
“When Flair learned that Warrior was getting the title opportunity at SummerSlam instead of him, he launched another series of well-calculated mind games.”
“Triple H reminds Shawn that he still has his title opportunity with the Elimination Chamber.”
“NXT guys than talking about his title opportunity on Sunday.”
“If Povetkin takes another fight, tune-up or otherwise, he loses his title opportunity because the IBF will take away his mandatory ranking.”
“Last Saturday night in Houston, Texas, Rocky Juarez had yet another title opportunity and was once again unable to capture a belt.”
“Could have used some sort of verbal discussion from Jack Swagger pre-match to express what this title opportunity means to him.”
“It was put over as unlucky for C.M. Punk and he still looked pretty good, so perhaps he'll get another title opportunity sometime after the winner of No Mercy's number one contender's match gets their shot.”
“I will cetainly be glad to "collect" an animal anytime the opportunity is available, because there have been many miles of briers, ticks, mosquitos, sand gnats, snakes, sweat and effort expended in between.”
“The raw material of the opportunity is the explosion of data from many sources that rarely finds a way inside traditional business intelligence systems.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘opportunity’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EU Buzz - EN words misused by the EU
A list based on http://ec.europa.eu/translation/english/guidelines/document...
actor, actual, adequate, agenda, agent, aids, allow, anglo-saxon, articulate, assist, axis, attestation and 77 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...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect 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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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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kodjo's list
level 4 speaking week 1
admire, ambition, experience, grow up, memory, opportunity, proud, regret, succes
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bensli's list
admire, ambition, experience, grow up, memory, opportunity, proud, regret, success
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Beknownst1981's list
I love words, especially the ones I make up with my friends.
translucent meat ..., beknownst (knew), plethora, curmudgeon, wanderlust, actually, differentiate, bearded, hobbit feet, female, sexy time, librarian and 220 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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laura
level 4 speaking week 1
admire, ambition, experience, grow up, memory, opportunity, proud, regret, success, ylang-ylang
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Kayo's list 1
level4 speaking week1
admire, ambition, experience, glow up, memory, opportunity, proud, regret, success
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Pamela's List
Level 4 speaking week 1
admire, ambition, experience, grow up, memory, opportunity, proud, regret, success, afterimage
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FABI's list
level 4 speaking
admire, ambition, experience, grow up, memory, opportunity, proud, regret, success, infornography
Tweets
Looking for tweets for opportunity.
GHibbs 'Opportunity cost' is an adjectival use. Nov 14, 2011
rolig When opportunity knocks, you shouldn't ask questions! May 14, 2009
bilby Who's there? May 14, 2009
rolig knock, knock May 14, 2009
ayuko This is a good opportunity to make new friends. May 14, 2009
natsuki chance May 14, 2009
kayo a good time what you want to do May 14, 2009
rie * a chance to be able to do something what we wanna do or achieve
I've got an opportunitiyto learn how to surf in Hawaii. May 13, 2009
erika Opportunity ist eine Gelegenheit
Now i habe e opportunity to learn english
May 13, 2009
edwardvielmetti the public library as a place of Dec 10, 2006