Usually means: Exploits situations for personal gain.
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  1. opportunist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. opportunist: Merriam-Webster
  3. opportunist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. opportunist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. opportunist: Collins English Dictionary
  6. opportunist: Vocabulary.com
  7. Opportunist, opportunist: Wordnik
  8. opportunist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. opportunist: Wiktionary
  10. opportunist: Dictionary.com
  11. opportunist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Opportunist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Opportunist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. opportunist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. opportunist: Rhymezone
  16. Opportunist (m), opportunist, opportunist (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. opportunist: FreeDictionary.org
  18. opportunist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. opportunist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opportunist: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opportunist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opportunist: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opportunist: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.

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