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   opportunistic

   /ˌɒpətjuːˈnɪstɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. exploiting immediate opportunities, especially regardless of planning or principle: "an opportunistic political lightweight"
   • ▪ (of a plant or animal) able to spread quickly in a previously unexploited habitat: "opportunistic populations colonizing new substrates"
   • ▪ (of a microorganism or an infection caused by it) affecting patients only or chiefly when the immune system is depressed.

   Derivatives

   • 1. opportunistically adverb

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › english › opportunisticOPPORTUNISTIC | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Opportunistic means using a situation to get power or an advantage, or affecting someone when they are already ill or weak. Learn more about the word, its synonyms, and its usage in different contexts with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.

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     OPPORTUNISTIC meaning: 1. using a situation to get power or...

   • Znaczenie Opportunistic, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     OPPORTUNISTIC definicja: 1. using a situation to get power...

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     OPPORTUNISTIC translate: 投機的；機會主義的. Learn more in the...

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   The meaning of OPPORTUNISTIC is taking advantage of opportunities as they arise. How to use opportunistic in a sentence.

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   To be opportunistic is to quickly take advantage of a situation, usually in a way that's just plain wrong. You know how an opportunity is a chance to do something? When you're opportunistic, you take advantage of that chance, usually immediately.

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   What does opportunism mean?

   • adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism. Pathology. (of a microorganism) causing disease only under certain conditions, as when a person's immune system is impaired. Pneumocystis pneumonia is an opportunistic disease that often strikes victims of AIDS.

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   What is opportunistic behaviour?

   • Opportunistic behaviour involves taking advantage of situations in order to gain money or power. Many of the party's members joined only for opportunistic reasons. Read about the team of authors behind Collins Dictionaries. A crustacean is an animal with a hard shell and several pairs of legs , which usually lives in water.

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   What is opportunistic adjective?

   • Definition of opportunistic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Questions about grammar and vocabulary? Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English. [only before noun] (medical) harmful to people whose immune system has been made weak by disease or drugs

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   What are some examples of opportunistic behavior?

   • Recent Examples on the Web That opportunistic behavior was documented at one of NDA’s Field to Fork events in Missouri in 2022, when a new hunter began to approach his first deer just as a skunk crawled onto the dead doe’s back and dug into the backstraps. Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024 Continue reading …

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   How strong is the opportunistic method?

   • The opportunistic method is strong just where the systematic is weak. In spite of the high regard in which he was held, this opportunistic proposal found little favor. The "State Socialist" and Reform attitude towards political democracy is indeed essentially opportunistic.

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   What are some examples of opportunistic transactions?

   • A wave of repricings, refinancing and other opportunistic transactions have come to market recently. Brands became too big, too opportunistic, too opaque. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   Opportunistic means taking advantage of situations to gain money or power, without thinking about right or wrong. It also means caused by microorganisms that can harm people with weakened immune systems.

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   Opportunistic definition: adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.. See examples of OPPORTUNISTIC used in a sentence.

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   Learn the meaning of opportunistic as an adjective, usually disapproving, and its synonyms. See how to use it in sentences related to politics, medicine, and business.

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   Opportunistic means making use of an opportunity, especially to get an advantage for yourself; not done in a planned way. It can also describe a harmful infection that affects people with weak immune systems.