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US
/ˌɑpɝˈtunɪst/
]
[ UK /ɒpətjˈuːnɪst/ ]
[ UK /ɒpətjˈuːnɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a person who places expediency above principle
ADJECTIVE
- taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
How To Use opportunist In A Sentence
- That said, this bid is opportunistic. Times, Sunday Times
- Rowe said Jackson was a man being manipulated by opportunists, who kept information from him and wanted to milk millions of dollars out of him.
- To me he is false, a bluffer, a hypocrite, a sectarian, a coward and an opportunist.
- They would keep opportunists like him at several arms length.
- His willingness to shift his message allowed his rivals to ridicule him as an opportunistic flip-flopper. Times, Sunday Times
- When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word.
- The opportunists know exactly what matters and it is always money or power.
- Opportunism played an important part in my acquisition of data, in the same way that the subjects of study made their money from opportunist ventures.
- Unlike the stereotype of salmon returning unerringly to their natal streams, salmon are innately resilient and opportunistic.
- All that was needed was a sustained opportunistic exploitation and minimal encouragement of what were still rather unimportant plant food sources.