Collocations with “Opportunity”

Collocations with “Opportunity”

Hello English learners. Welcome to a new lesson. We will look at collocations with “opportunity”.

The noun opportunity refers to a chance to do something or a situation when it is possible and easy to do something.

Here is the list of the most common collocations and phrases with opportunity:

• Get an opportunity
• Take/use the opportunity
• Seize/grasp the opportunity
• Give somebody the opportunity
• Opportunity for
• An opportunity comes up
• An opportunity arises
• Golden opportunity
• Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
• Missed opportunity
• A photo opportunity
• A window of opportunity

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Get an opportunity

Meaning: to be allowed to do something you think is a good thing to do.

• Sara got an opportunity to travel abroad on business and she decided to take it.

Take/use the opportunity

Meaning: to do something you are given a chance to do.

• We hope that you will take the opportunity to visit our town.
• Mark used the opportunity to meet up with some old friends while he was in Leeds.

Grasp/seize the opportunity

Meaning: to take an opportunity eagerly.

• Sandra grasped the opportunity to work in the US
• One has to learn to seize the opportunity when it comes up.

Give somebody the opportunity

Meaning: to allow someone to do something.

• The headteacher gave the children the opportunity to express their opinion on the matter.

Opportunity for

• The new job will be a great opportunity for Monica to show her skills.

An opportunity comes up

Meaning: when you get a chance to do something.

• I planned to change jobs when an opportunity came up to work for a multinational.

An opportunity arises

Meaning: a chance arises.

• If the opportunity arises, I’ll go and talk to my boss about the promotion.

A golden opportunity

Meaning: a good opportunity to do something you’d love to.

• Chloe had a golden opportunity to be a caretaker of a tropical island in the Pacific.

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Meaning: an opportunity you will get only once, the one you should take advantage of.

• Working on nature conservation in the South Pole was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and Brian decided to use it.

Missed opportunity

Meaning: an opportunity you didn’t use.

• Not buying that cheap flat in the city centre was a missed opportunity Sara will regret forever.

A photo opportunity

Meaning: a chance to take a photo of someone or something.

• Professional photographers use every photo opportunity they can.

A window of opportunity

Meaning: a time when you have a chance to do something.

• They always kept their cameras with them in case a window of opportunity opens to shoot the surrounding.

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