opportunity
/ˌɑ.pɚˈt(j)u.nə.ti/ noun A2- A chance for advancement, progress or profit. · seize the opportunity· take an opportunity
- A favorable circumstance or occasion. · Having a holiday is a great opportunity to relax.
Plural opportunities
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She was in hopes that the evening would afford some opportunity of bringing them together; that the whole of the visit would not pass away without enabling them to enter into something more of conversation, than the mere ceremonious salutation attending his entrance.
Bennet had designed to keep the two Netherfield gentlemen to supper; but their carriage was, unluckily, ordered before any of the others, and she had no opportunity of detaining them.
Villefort retained his place, but his marriage was put off until a more favorable opportunity.
Here was an opportunity of taking the conceit out of him.
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