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Explore Opportunism through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like expedience or selfishness. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Opportunism meaning

  1. The practice of taking advantage of any situations or people to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.
  2. 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.

Synonyms of Opportunism

self-interest self-seeking expedience selfishness

Related words

Other words often associated with Opportunism or its synonyms:

stinginess vantage egoism altruism selfish advantage trait unselfishness expediency

Using Opportunism

  • The main meaning on this page is: The practice of taking advantage of any situations or people to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences. | 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.
  • Useful related words include: self-interest, self-seeking, expedience, selfishness.
  • In the example corpus, opportunism often appears in combinations such as: political opportunism, opportunism and, and opportunism.

Context around Opportunism

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

political 7× corporate 1×

Often after:

selfishness 1× toward 1× failed 1× involved 1× took 1×

Sentence patterns with Opportunism

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

act of opportunism 1× amount of opportunism involved 1× and political opportunism 1× anger political opportunism and sheer 1× apart from opportunism selfishness and 1× approach over opportunism 1× be corporate opportunism 1× by the opportunism for wealth 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

all nigerians must 1× all parties including 1× but tsien s 1× conservative mp chris 1× coupled by the 1× fear anger political 1×

Common sentence endings:

achieve economic independence 1× act of opportunism 1× actions and consequences 1× and political opportunism 1× approach over opportunism 1× at times too 1×

Words around Opportunism

Just before it in the word index:

opportuned 2 opportune 81 oppong 42 opponents 3.769 opponent 3.011 opponens 3

Just after it in the word index:

opportunist 31 opportunistic 176 opportunistically 39 opportunists 44 opportunities 8.334 opportunity 14.118

Similar in corpus frequency:

abstention 49 acadiana 49 actuarial 49 admonition 49 aimless 49 akintola 49

Corpus analysis for Opportunism

  • In this selection, "opportunism" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, political, corporate, selfishness, toward and failed stand out and add context to how "opportunism" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include act of opportunism and amount of opportunism involved. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "opportunism" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with opportunism

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Could this be corporate opportunism? (5 words)

Such political opportunism is reprehensible. (5 words)

Moreover, President Ali urged a realistic approach over opportunism. (9 words)

Longer example sentences

Liberal and conservative Americans are immersed in a crisis of silence that ignores the fact that politicians such as Trump embrace totalitarian values — the language of dictators — and advocate for violence as a tool of political opportunism. (37 words)

If the ambition to drive social progress while staying away from politics could barely pass as pragmatism for Jordan in 1990, however, it is harder not to regard it as opportunism for corporate CEOs in 2020. (36 words)

Time, perhaps, for the BCA to stop treating us as fools and blaming systematic exploitation of the most vulnerable awards on regulation, rather than pure greed and opportunism on the part of employers? (33 words)

Question examples

Could this be corporate opportunism? (5 words)

Time, perhaps, for the BCA to stop treating us as fools and blaming systematic exploitation of the most vulnerable awards on regulation, rather than pure greed and opportunism on the part of employers? (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

All Nigerians must be wondering what kind of “values and beliefs” she has apart from opportunism, selfishness and greed.

Could this be corporate opportunism?

Moreover, President Ali urged a realistic approach over opportunism.

Fear, anger, political opportunism and sheer desperation overwhelm calm, objective thinking about actions and consequences.

Liberal and conservative Americans are immersed in a crisis of silence that ignores the fact that politicians such as Trump embrace totalitarian values — the language of dictators — and advocate for violence as a tool of political opportunism.

Time, perhaps, for the BCA to stop treating us as fools and blaming systematic exploitation of the most vulnerable awards on regulation, rather than pure greed and opportunism on the part of employers?

What you lack is ‘class instinct’; from excessive radicalism you slipped straight into opportunism.

All parties, including the DA, engage in partisanship and political opportunism.

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Conservative MP Chris Clarkson was speaking about "opportunism" during the Labour-led debate on economic support for areas with greater restrictions, when he claims the insult was hurled at him.

If the ambition to drive social progress while staying away from politics could barely pass as pragmatism for Jordan in 1990, however, it is harder not to regard it as opportunism for corporate CEOs in 2020.

Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita hit back at the over “political opportunism” and game playing tactics as the operation to repatriate residents and citizens from Morocco to European countries continues.

Playing the messiah of the masses by using a tragic death is the worst act of opportunism.

Such political opportunism is reprehensible.

The issue of branch stacking is riddled with opportunism and hypocrisy, with no genuine commitment to eliminate it, or even contain it.

This is just another form of opportunism toward duped believers who are searching for answers by asking someone else’s questions.

But Tsien’s political opportunism failed him at times, too.

Coupled by the opportunism for wealth it’s unlikely that we can achieve economic independence.

Radical-Liberal Philippe Nantermod, one of the politicians who has changed his position since 2015, admitted to RTS that there was a certain amount of opportunism involved.

The article made reference to a quote from Rudd that blamed the “Green Party’s political opportunism in 2009-10” for Australia’s lack of an emissions trading scheme.

The wonderful piece of opportunism took the 30-year-old level with former Bayern favourite Gerd Muller on 14 goals as the highest scorer in this fixture.

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Common combinations with opportunism

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "opportunism" in a sentence?
An example: "All Nigerians must be wondering what kind of “values and beliefs” she has apart from opportunism, selfishness and greed." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "opportunism" from authentic English texts.
What does "opportunism" mean?
Opportunism means: The practice of taking advantage of any situations or people to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.
What are synonyms of "opportunism"?
Common synonyms of "opportunism" include: self-interest, self-seeking, expedience, selfishness.
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