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How to pronounce opportunities in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chance
Type of possibility, possibleness
Has types clean slate, crack, day, fresh start, hearing, hunting ground, occasion, opening, room, say, shot, street, tabula rasa, audience, throw, brass ring
Derivation opportune


the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington.

Examples of opportunities

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While different places have different strengths, each of them has opportunities.
From the tennessean.com
They said they do not want quotas, just the same opportunities as other workers.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
We had only 10 shots on goal, but the shots we did have were good opportunities.
From the stltoday.com
There should be no shortage of opportunities for the new boy to prove his worth.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
He said he wants improved living standards and equal opportunities for Russians.
From the voanews.com
I see all sorts of wonderful buying opportunities in the coming 12 to 24 months.
From the businessweek.com
A period of change, and that includes hard times, can create such opportunities.
From the businessweek.com
Each of them eyes soaring opportunities while confronting stark vulnerabilities.
From the businessweek.com
He said coaches see these times as opportunities to be more critical than usual.
From the kansas.com
More examples
  • A possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance"
  • In US Criminal law, means, motive, and opportunity is a popular cultural summation of the three aspects of a crime needed to convince a jury of guilt in a criminal proceeding. ...
  • Opportunity, mission designation MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover - B), is the second of the two rovers of NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission. ...
  • The Opportunity is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley, published in 1640. The play has been called "a capital little comedy, fairly bubbling over with clever situations and charming character."
  • (Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)) "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" is a song by UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, released as a single in 1985 and then in 1986, gaining greater popularity in both the UK and U.S. with its second release.
  • A chance for advancement, progress or profit; a favorable circumstance or occasion
  • (Opportunities) this fund basically invests in those companies which finds new opportunities in the market. Franklin India Opportunities Fund, Reliance Equity Opportunities Fund.
  • (Opportunities) Chances for young people to learn how to act in the world around them, to explore, express, earn, belong, and influence. Opportunities give young people the chance to test ideas and behaviors and to experiment with different roles. ...
  • (Opportunities) Circumstances to decrease the gap between the market potential of any technology or practice and the economic potential, or technical potential.