Dictionary Definition
opportunity n : a possibility due to a favorable
combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity
to visit Washington"; "now is your chance" [syn: chance]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Opportunity
English
Noun
- a chance for advancement, progress or profit
- a favorable circumstance or occasion
Derived terms
Translations
chance for advancement, progress or profit
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 机会 (jīhuì)
- Croatian: prilika, prigoda
- Czech: příležitost
- Dutch: kans
- Finnish: tilaisuus, mahdollisuus
- French: occasion
- German: Gelegenheit
- Hungarian: alkalom
- Italian: occasione
- Japanese: 機会 (きかい, kikai)
- Korean: 기회 [機會] (gihoe)
- Persian: فرصت
- Portuguese: oportunidade
- Polish: możliwość, okazja, sposobność
- Russian: возможность, шанс
- Spanish: oportunidad
- Swedish: tillfälle
favorable circumstance or occasion
- Croatian: prilika, prigoda
- Finnish: tilaisuus
- Spanish: oportunidad
- ttbc Dutch: kans , mogelijkheid
- ttbc French: opportunité , chance
- ttbc German: Gelegenheit
- ttbc Indonesian: kesempatan
- ttbc Italian: opportunità
- ttbc Japanese: 機会 (きかい, kikai)
- ttbc Korean: 기회 [機會] (gihoe)
- ttbc Norwegian: mulighet , sjanse
- ttbc Persian: (forsat)
- ttbc Romanian: oportunitate
Extensive Definition
Opportunity may refer to:
- Opportunity NYC is the experimental Conditional Cash Transfer program being launched in New York City
- Opportunity Asset Management, a Brazilian investment bank based in Rio de Janeiro
- Opportunity, Washington, a city in the U.S.
- Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, an important literary periodical of the Harlem Renaissance
- Opportunity cost
- Market Opportunity
- Equal opportunity
- Business opportunity
- Opportunity (law)
- The Opportunity, a 17th-century play
In space exploration:
- Opportunity rover (MER-B), one of the two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission, the other being the Spirit rover.
- 39382 Opportunity, an asteroid named after the Mars rover
- Launch window, a window of opportunity
opportunity in French: Opportunity
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a leg up, accidentality, actuarial
calculation, adventitiousness,
bout, break, casualness, chance, clear stage, destiny, fair field, fair game,
fate, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, gamble, go, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance,
heedless hap, hope, how
they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness,
inning, innings, juncture, law of averages,
leisure, liberty, look-in, lot, luck, moira, moment, occasion, opening, opportunism, pass, place, possibility, prayer, principle of
indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random
sample, relief, risk, room, round, run of luck, say, scope, serendipity, shot, show, space, spell, squeak, statistical probability,
stepping-stone, the breaks, theory of probability, time, time at bat, turn, uncertainty, uncertainty
principle, whack, whatever
comes