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单词 time-waiter
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time-waiter
time-waiter n. Obsolete a person who waits for a favourable moment, turn of events, etc.; an opportunist; cf. tide-waiter n. 2.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > expedience > [noun] > opportunist
time-waiter1833
tide-waiter1841
opportunist1873
1833 R. W. Hamilton Serm. ii. 106 He..declined to assist what he forebore to oppose; and received the indignant answer and the just retribution which it ever hurls against the time-server and time-waiter.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 175 You never see these ghostly time-waiters anywhere but on 'Change, and out of 'Change hours.
1899 Globe 30 June During the debate Mr. Courtney call'd himself first a Liberal Unionist and then a Time-waiter.
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