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opportunity

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Opportunity , also known as MER-B ( Mars Exploration Rover – B ) or MER-1 , is a robotic rover active on Mars since 2004. Launched on July 7, 2003 as part of NASA 's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opportunity \Op`por*tu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Opportunities . [F. opportunit['e], L. opportunitas. See Opportune .] Fit or convenient time or situation; a time or place permitting or favorable for the execution of a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a chance/opportunity to express sth ▪ The debate will give MPs an opportunity to express their views in detail. accept an opportunity ▪ I wish that I’d accepted the opportunity to retire when it was offered. afford (sb) ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 25065 Housing Units (2000): 10827 Land area (2000): 6.689717 sq. miles (17.326288 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.689717 sq. miles (17.326288 sq. km) FIPS code: 51515 Located within: ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A chance for advancement, progress or profit.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French opportunite (13c.) and directly from Latin opportunitatem (nominative opportunitas ) "fitness, convenience, suitableness, favorable time," from opportunus (see opportune ). Opportunity cost attested from 1911. Expression opportunity ...

Usage examples of opportunity.

Every action aboard the ship was dissected to see what opportunities it presented.

The complaint further alleged that the office of the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections failed to inform the Democratic Party of the actions of the Republican Party volunteers and to afford them the same opportunity to correct defective requests for absentee ballots from Democratic Party members.

Bismarck and Cavour seized the opportunity of making extremely useful for Germany and Italy the irrelevant and vacillating idealism and the timid absolutism of the third Napoleon.

The advocate of equal rights is preoccupied by these opportunities for the abusive exercise of power, because from his point of view rights exercised in the interest of inequality have ceased to be righteous.

Hengist, who boldly aspired to the conquest of Britain, exhorted his countrymen to embrace the glorious opportunity: he painted in lively colors the fertility of the soil, the wealth of the cities, the pusillanimous temper of the natives, and the convenient situation of a spacious solitary island, accessible on all sides to the Saxon fleets.

I declined to be present at his suppers, which were far from amusing, and gave the family of the actress an opportunity of laughing at the poor fool who was paying for them.

He assured me that it should not happen again, that he had gone to Gorice to meet an actress, who had come there purposely to see him, and that he had also profited by the opportunity to sign a contract of marriage with a Venetian lady.

Castile to bring supplies and people under hire, and at the earliest opportunity to send also his brother, the Adelantado, to prosecute his discovery and find great things, as he hoped they would be found, to serve our Lord and the Sovereigns.

Since the house is technically part of the historic district, there are rules about maintenance and that sort of thing, and Aden took the opportunity to give her some trouble about it.

A hearing before judgment, with full opportunity to submit evidence and arguments being all that can be adjudged vital, it follows that rehearings and new trials are not essential to due process of law.

Equally consistent with the requirements of due process is a statutory procedure whereby a prosecutor of a case is adjudged liable for costs, and committed to jail in default of payment thereof, whenever the court or jury, after according him an opportunity to present evidence of good faith, finds that he instituted the prosecution without probable cause and from malicious motives.

The seventeen doomed men were offered a meal and an opportunity to speak with a priest before they were lined up along an adobe wall and shot.

I took the opportunity of telling her that if she willed I would be hers, as I adored her, but that I could not sigh for long.

I have acknowledged his flair for adventurist opportunities in military strategy.

The reason was simple: Radio is the most visual medium available to advertisers since radio commercials have the best opportunity to create vivid imagery in the minds of the consumer.