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Grammar : Noun
Spell : op-er-too-niz-uh m, -tyoo-
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɒp ərˈtu nɪz əm, -ˈtyu-



Définition of opportunism

Origin :
  • "policy of adopting actions to circumstances while holding goals unchanged," 1870, from opportune + -ism. Cf. opportunist.
  • noun expediency
Example sentences :
  • I have scorned this opportunism all my life, and now I regret having scorned it.
  • Extract from : « The Daughters of Danaus » by Mona Caird
  • That there may be no opportunism every citizen must be alive to the morality of politics.
  • Extract from : « Judges and Ruth » by Robert A. Watson
  • No member of my family would ever be guilty of opportunism, and remain in my family.
  • Extract from : « Angelot » by Eleanor Price
  • For that is just what opportunism wants—to keep these two questions in abeyance.
  • Extract from : « Anarchism and Socialism » by George Plechanoff
  • Is not this the opportunism of both a Browning and a Gladstone?
  • Extract from : « Browning and His Century » by Helen Archibald Clarke
  • He wanted advice, he wanted to be confirmed in his own opportunism, as a starving beggar may want food.
  • Extract from : « The Price of Love » by Arnold Bennett
  • Compared with his high stand for the right, the opportunism of such a man as Clay shrivels into nothingness.
  • Extract from : « A Social History of The American Negro » by Benjamin Brawley
  • Opportunism, rationalized by one or another ornamental philosophy, has been very common in modern China.
  • Extract from : « Government in Republican China » by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
  • Opportunism has been characterized by the avid acceptance of wholly implausible doctrines, or by a disingenuous "realism."
  • Extract from : « Government in Republican China » by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
  • But unless they are realized in a high degree, wage settlement will continue to be a matter of force and opportunism.
  • Extract from : « The Settlement of Wage Disputes » by Herbert Feis

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