opportunity
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
opportunity/ɒpəˈtjuːnəti/
▶noun (pl. opportunities) a favourable time or set of circumstances for doing something.
– origin ME: from OFr. opportunite, from L. opportunitas, from opportunus (see word history at opportune).
'opportunity' also found in these Oxford entries:
access
- afford
- American
- banns
- beg
- bide
- blow
- break
- breathing space
- card
- chance
- chancer
- cherry
- comeback
- connection
- difficulty
- entrance
- entry
- field day
- Flynn
- forelock
- gift
- golden
- grasp
- half
- hay
- hearing
- heaven-sent
- hint
- initiative
- kairos
- leap
- let-out
- mark
- occasion
- offer
- open
- opening
- opportune
- opportunity cost
- pass
- photo opportunity
- platform
- pre-emption
- present
- responsibility
- room
- ruff
- salutary
