opportunist

See also: Opportunist

English

Etymology

From French opportuniste, equivalent to opportune +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈtjuːnɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

opportunist (plural opportunists)

1. Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.
   • 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless Bent and Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line.

Synonyms

• chancer

Related terms

• opportune
• opportunism
• opportunistic
• opportunity

Translations

someone who takes advantage of any opportunity

• Arabic:

  South Levantine Arabic: مصلحجي m (maṣlaḥji), مصلحجية f (maṣlaḥjiyye)

• Armenian: օպորտունիստ (hy) (ōportunist), պատեհապաշտ (hy) (patehapašt)
• Asturian: oportunista m or f
• Azerbaijani: fürsətçi
• Belarusian: апартуні́ст m (apartuníst), апартуні́стка f (apartunístka)
• Catalan: oportunista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變色龍 / 变色龙 (zh) (biànsèlóng)

• Czech: oportunista m
• Danish: opportunist (da) c
• Dutch: opportunist (nl) m, opportuniste f
• Esperanto: oportunisto
• Estonian: oportunist
• Finnish: opportunisti (fi)
• French: opportuniste (fr)
• Galician: oportunista m or f, comenenciudo
• Georgian: ოპორტუნისტი (oṗorṭunisṭi)
• German: Opportunist (de) m, Opportunistin f, Wendehals (de) m
• Greek: καιροσκόπος (el) m or f (kairoskópos), οπορτουνιστής (el) m (oportounistís), οπορτουνίστρια (el) f (oportounístria)
• Indonesian: oportunis (id)
• Irish: brabúsaí m
• Italian: approfittatore (it) m, opportunista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 日和見主義者 (hiyorimi shugisha), 蝙蝠 (ja) (kōmori), カメレオン (ja) (kamereon)
• Korean: 기회주의자 (ko) (gihoejuuija)
• Latvian: oportūnists m, oportūniste f
• Norwegian: opportunist (no) m
• Persian: فرصت طلب (fa) (forsat-talab), اپورتونیست (fa) (oportunist)
• Polish: oportunista (pl) m, oportunistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: oportunista (pt) m or f, chupim (pt) m
• Russian: оппортуни́ст (ru) m (opportuníst), оппортуни́стка (ru) f (opportunístka), приспособле́нец (ru) m (prisposoblénec), приспособле́нка (ru) f (prisposoblénka)
• Serbo-Croatian: oportunist (sh)
• Spanish: oportunista (es) m, (Puerto Rico) vela güira f, aprovechado (es) m, aprovechón m, ventajista (es) m or f, ventajoso (es) m (Mexico), ventajero (es) m (Argentina, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic), encajoso m (Mexico), pancista (es) m or f (colloquial)
• Swedish: opportunist (sv) c
• Tagalog: mapanamantala
• Turkish: fırsatçı (tr)
• Ukrainian: опортуні́ст m (oportuníst), опортуні́стка f (oportunístka), пристосо́ванець m (prystosóvanecʹ), пристосо́ванка f (prystosóvanka)

Further reading

• “opportunist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “opportunist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Danish

Etymology

From French opportuniste.

Noun

opportunist c (singular definite opportunisten, plural indefinite opportunister)

1. opportunist

Declension

Declension of opportunist

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	opportunist	opportunisten	opportunister	opportunisterne
genitive	opportunists	opportunistens	opportunisters	opportunisternes

Related terms

• opportunistisk
• opportunisme

References

• “opportunist” in Den Danske Ordbog