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Definition of opportunistic in English: opportunisticadjective ɒpətjuːˈnɪstɪkˌɑpərt(j)uˈnɪstɪk 1Exploiting immediate opportunities, especially regardless of planning or principle. an opportunistic political lightweight Example sentencesExamples - We have lashed out at those we fear and allowed ourselves to be manipulated by opportunistic and exploitative politicians.
- The drafters viewed power politics, and the opportunistic use of Security Council vetoes, as an obstacle to individual accountability under international human rights law.
- It seems likely that this too was a politically opportunistic decision.
- These factors increase parents' vulnerability to opportunistic exploitation and raise their overall transaction costs with unfavourable implications for value creation.
- They are just so politically opportunistic that they are willing to put their short-term partisan interest ahead of the long-term national interest.
- I think he took an opportunistic political move in the area.
- I am proud to say that this Government's position is based on environmental integrity, whereas the Opposition's position is opportunistic, and inconsistent with its earlier stance.
- Political ideologies are quite often opportunistic with respect to institutional questions.
- Given the uncertainties that envelope them, one cannot blame them for being servile, opportunistic and selfish.
- Politicians, particularly brutally opportunistic politicians, take their cue from the temper of the times.
- Mr Flavin said the group would continue to increase sales through a combination of organic growth and opportunistic acquisitions.
- We are rapidly becoming a tawdry, mean, opportunistic and expedient culture, which I suppose reflects our political leadership on both sides.
- Can this deep division, composed as it is of moral, political, strategic, tactical and opportunistic elements, be bridged?
- It would be even more disturbing should it emerge that the approach is an opportunistic one, seeking merely to plunder industry without regard to the wider implications.
- All that was needed was a sustained opportunistic exploitation and minimal encouragement of what were still rather unimportant plant food sources.
- People think of us as opportunistic and selfish people who will do anything for power, and electing a leader on the basis of who will most likely return us to power is not a good way to go about changing that!
- In the movie, a political satire, Beatty plays an opportunistic Democrat who starts being brutally honest on the stump, eventually even talking in rap and wearing the oversized clothes of a hip-hop kid.
- The company's voracious appetite for acquisitions was opportunistic and did not follow a strategic plan, the report continues, and made it difficult for investors to compare results from year to year.
- I personally was encouraged from an early age to regard your country as opportunistic at minimum, greedy at best, and the worst bully in the playground at worst.
- Politicians here should learn the lesson that people can see through such opportunistic politiking.
Synonyms egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, self-centred, self-regarding, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-seeking, self-serving, wrapped up in oneself, inward-looking, introverted, self-loving - 1.1Ecology (of a plant or animal) able to spread quickly in a previously unexploited habitat.
opportunistic populations colonizing new substrates Example sentencesExamples - The aforementioned birds are as opportunistic as humans, at least as far as habitat goes.
- In addition, the extra carbon dioxide increases plant growth - particularly for opportunistic species that thrive in cities, such as ragweed.
- Similar to the orcas described in the story, the great white shark is an opportunistic feeder.
- These disruptions have allowed opportunistic creatures to move in.
- The majority of species are opportunistic, preying upon anything they can overpower that comes within striking distance.
- 1.2Medicine (of a microorganism or an infection caused by it) affecting patients only or chiefly when the immune system is depressed.
Example sentencesExamples - Tuberculosis is the most frequent opportunistic infection amongst these patients with moderate to advanced immunosuppression.
- All patients had prior opportunistic infections.
- In advanced HIV infection, the presence of many opportunistic infections affecting the lungs may cause difficulties in the diagnosis of TB.
- Of the 43 patients with an opportunistic infection, 36 had a predominance of nodules smaller than 1 cm in diameter.
- Moreover, differential diagnosis to exclude opportunistic infections is difficult, due to relatively similar clinical and laboratory presentations.
Definition of opportunistic in US English: opportunisticadjectiveˌɑpərt(j)uˈnɪstɪkˌäpərt(y)o͞oˈnistik 1Exploiting chances offered by immediate circumstances without reference to a general plan or moral principle. the change was cynical and opportunistic Example sentencesExamples - Politicians, particularly brutally opportunistic politicians, take their cue from the temper of the times.
- They are just so politically opportunistic that they are willing to put their short-term partisan interest ahead of the long-term national interest.
- We have lashed out at those we fear and allowed ourselves to be manipulated by opportunistic and exploitative politicians.
- The drafters viewed power politics, and the opportunistic use of Security Council vetoes, as an obstacle to individual accountability under international human rights law.
- Politicians here should learn the lesson that people can see through such opportunistic politiking.
- Mr Flavin said the group would continue to increase sales through a combination of organic growth and opportunistic acquisitions.
- I am proud to say that this Government's position is based on environmental integrity, whereas the Opposition's position is opportunistic, and inconsistent with its earlier stance.
- It would be even more disturbing should it emerge that the approach is an opportunistic one, seeking merely to plunder industry without regard to the wider implications.
- People think of us as opportunistic and selfish people who will do anything for power, and electing a leader on the basis of who will most likely return us to power is not a good way to go about changing that!
- I personally was encouraged from an early age to regard your country as opportunistic at minimum, greedy at best, and the worst bully in the playground at worst.
- Can this deep division, composed as it is of moral, political, strategic, tactical and opportunistic elements, be bridged?
- Political ideologies are quite often opportunistic with respect to institutional questions.
- We are rapidly becoming a tawdry, mean, opportunistic and expedient culture, which I suppose reflects our political leadership on both sides.
- I think he took an opportunistic political move in the area.
- All that was needed was a sustained opportunistic exploitation and minimal encouragement of what were still rather unimportant plant food sources.
- In the movie, a political satire, Beatty plays an opportunistic Democrat who starts being brutally honest on the stump, eventually even talking in rap and wearing the oversized clothes of a hip-hop kid.
- It seems likely that this too was a politically opportunistic decision.
- These factors increase parents' vulnerability to opportunistic exploitation and raise their overall transaction costs with unfavourable implications for value creation.
- Given the uncertainties that envelope them, one cannot blame them for being servile, opportunistic and selfish.
- The company's voracious appetite for acquisitions was opportunistic and did not follow a strategic plan, the report continues, and made it difficult for investors to compare results from year to year.
Synonyms egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, self-centred, self-regarding, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-seeking, self-serving, wrapped up in oneself, inward-looking, introverted, self-loving - 1.1Ecology (of a plant or animal) able to spread quickly in a previously unexploited habitat.
Example sentencesExamples - The aforementioned birds are as opportunistic as humans, at least as far as habitat goes.
- These disruptions have allowed opportunistic creatures to move in.
- The majority of species are opportunistic, preying upon anything they can overpower that comes within striking distance.
- In addition, the extra carbon dioxide increases plant growth - particularly for opportunistic species that thrive in cities, such as ragweed.
- Similar to the orcas described in the story, the great white shark is an opportunistic feeder.
- 1.2Medicine (of a microorganism or an infection caused by it) rarely affecting patients except in unusual circumstances, typically when the immune system is depressed.
Example sentencesExamples - All patients had prior opportunistic infections.
- Moreover, differential diagnosis to exclude opportunistic infections is difficult, due to relatively similar clinical and laboratory presentations.
- In advanced HIV infection, the presence of many opportunistic infections affecting the lungs may cause difficulties in the diagnosis of TB.
- Of the 43 patients with an opportunistic infection, 36 had a predominance of nodules smaller than 1 cm in diameter.
- Tuberculosis is the most frequent opportunistic infection amongst these patients with moderate to advanced immunosuppression.
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