Noun

Singular opportunity

Plural opportunities

opportunity (plural opportunities)

1. a chance for advancement, progress or profit
2. a favorable circumstance or occasion

Derived terms

• business opportunity
• the ladder of opportunity
• Land of Opportunity
• equal opportunity
• photo opportunity
• opportunity cost

Related terms

• opportune
• opportunist
• opportunistic
• opportunism

Opportunity may refer to:

• Opportunity NYC is the experimental Conditional Cash Transfer program being launched in New York City
• 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
• Political opportunity
• Means, motive, and opportunity
• The Opportunity, a 17th-century play
• "Opportunity", a song by Pete Murray
• Opportunity is chance and worth..

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

Quotes about opportunity.

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
  • Francis Bacon, Essays, 52. ‘Of Ceremonies and Respects.’

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.
  • Thomas Edison

• Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
  • H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger-but recognize the opportunity"
  • John F. Kennedy

• You can never find a lost opportunity.
• History repeats itself, opportunity doesn't.
• Opportunity has hair in front, but behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forlock, you may hold her, but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
  • Latin Sayings

• Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.
  • Adrienne Gusoff

• Never waste a crisis. It can be turned to joyful transformation.
  • Rahm Israel Emanuel, From an article in the New York Times, March 17th 2009

• Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
  • Booker T. Washington [1]

• Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
  • James Geary, From James Geary's website, 2009

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