Opportunity

n.	1.	Fit or convenient time or situation; a time or place permitting or favorable for the execution of a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Bacon.
	2.	Convenience of situation; fitness. Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. - Milton.
	3.	Importunity; earnestness.

Noun

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opportunity - a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance" Synonyms: chance

a leg up, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, bout, break, casualness, clear stage, destiny, fair field, fair game, fate, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, gamble, go, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, hope, how they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, inning, innings, juncture, law of averages, leisure, liberty, look-in, lot, luck, moira, moment, opening, opportunism, pass, place, prayer, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, relief, risk, room, round, run of luck, say, scope, serendipity, shot, show, space, spell, squeak, statistical probability, stepping-stone, the breaks, theory of probability, time at bat, turn, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, whack, whatever comes

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