Usually means: Exploiting circumstances for personal gain.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. opportunism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. opportunism: Merriam-Webster
  3. opportunism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. opportunism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opportunism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opportunism, opportunism: Wordnik
  7. opportunism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opportunism: Wiktionary
  9. opportunism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opportunism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opportunism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Opportunism, opportunism: Dictionary.com
  13. Opportunism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Opportunism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. opportunism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. opportunism: Rhymezone
  17. Opportunism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. opportunism: FreeDictionary.org
  19. opportunism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. opportunism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. OPPORTUNISM: Accounting Glossary
  2. opportunism: Legal dictionary
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Opportunism: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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noun:  The practice of taking advantage of any situations or people to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.
noun:  (Marxism) The political line of Communist Party members who zealously support the Party, but whose trait is that they yield to the mood of the moment, they are unable to resist what is fashionable, leading to the sacrifice of the permanent and essential interests of the Party to the momentary and minor interests.

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