| (Merriam-Webster, 2020) |
1. a favorable juncture of circumstances2. a good chance for advancement or progress |
1. a person who dexterously and expediently changes or adopts opinions2. one who does things only for his own benefit and with little regard for right and wrong |
is the art, policy, or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances often with little regard for principles or consequences |
attentive to and ready to act on opportunities for personal gain or advancement |
| (The Free Dictionary, 2020) |
1. A favorable or advantageous circumstance or combination of circumstances.2.A chance for progress or advancement, as in a career.3.a situation or condition favorable for attainment of a goal.4.a good chance or prospect, as for success. |
1. one who takes advantage of any opportunity to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.2. a person who adapts his actions, responses, etc, to take advantage of opportunities, circumstances, etc3. a person who places expediency above principle |
1. the policy or practice, as in politics or business, of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to expediency or effectiveness without regard to principles or consequences.2. taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others3. in the working-class movement, theory and practice that contradict the real interests of the working class and push the working-class movement onto a path beneficial to the bourgeoisie. (taken from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979).) |
taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit. |
| (Cambridge Dictionary, 2020) |
an occasion or situation which makes it possible to do something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of doing something |
1. a person who takes advantage of every chance for success without thinking about the effects on other people2. someone who tries to get power or an advantage in every situation |
behaviour in which you use every situation to try to get power or an advantage |
1. using a situation to get power or an advantage2. (of an organism or infection) affecting someone when they are already ill or weak |
