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English
Etymology
From French opportuniste.
Pronunciation
Noun
opportunist (plural opportunists)
- Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.
2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless Bent and Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line.
Synonyms
Translations
someone who takes advantage of any opportunity
- Armenian: օպորտունիստ (hy) (ōportunist), պատեհապաշտ (hy) (patehapašt)
- Asturian: oportunista m or f
- Azerbaijani: fürsətçi
- Belarusian: апартуні́ст m (apartuníst), апартуні́стка f (apartunístka)
- Catalan: oportunista m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 變色龍／变色龙 (zh) (biànsèlóng)
- Czech: oportunista m
- Danish: opportunist (da) c
- Dutch: opportunist (nl) m, opportuniste f
- Esperanto: oportunisto
- Estonian: oportunist
- Finnish: opportunisti (fi)
- French: opportuniste (fr)
- Galician: oportunista m or f, comenenciudo
- German: Opportunist (de) m, Opportunistin f, Wendehals (de) m
- Greek: καιροσκόπος (el) m or f (kairoskópos), οπορτουνιστής (el) m (oportounistís), οπορτουνίστρια (el) f (oportounístria)
- Irish: brabúsaí m
- Italian: approfittatore (it) m, opportunista (it) m or f
- Japanese: 日和見主義者 (hiyorimi shugisha), 蝙蝠 (ja) (kōmori), カメレオン (ja) (kamereon)
- Korean: 기회주의자 (ko) (gihoejuuija)
- Latvian: oportūnists m, oportūniste f
- Norwegian: opportunist (no) m
- Persian: فرصت طلب (fa) (forsat-talab), اپورتونیست (fa) (oportunist)
- Polish: oportunista (pl) m, oportunistka (pl) f
- Portuguese: oportunista (pt) m or f, chupim (pt) m
- Russian: оппортуни́ст (ru) m (opportuníst), оппортуни́стка (ru) f (opportunístka), приспособле́нец (ru) m (prisposoblénec), приспособле́нка (ru) f (prisposoblénka)
- Serbo-Croatian: oportunist (sh)
- Spanish: oportunista (es) m, (Puerto Rico) vela güira f, aprovechado (es) m, aprovechón m, ventajista m or f, ventajoso (es) m (Mexico), ventajero m (Argentina, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic), encajoso m (Mexico), pancista (es) m or f (colloquial)
- Swedish: opportunist (sv) c
- Tagalog: mapanamantala
- Turkish: fırsatçı (tr)
- Ukrainian: опортуні́ст m (oportuníst), опортуні́стка f (oportunístka), пристосо́ванець m (prystosóvanecʹ), пристосо́ванка f (prystosóvanka)
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Further reading
- “opportunist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “opportunist”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.