job opportunity
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2.1
- noun
- /dʒɑb ˌɑpərˈtunɪti/
:
oportunidad de empleo
- Many job opportunities are available for recent graduates in the tech industry.
- new job opportunities
- few job opportunities
- more job opportunities
I just got a great job opportunity.
- I just got a great job opportunity.
- So they have their family and their friends there or because they feel that this is the only place where they'll have the job opportunities that they want to have.
- When you talked about discrimination, when you talked about anti-Semitism, it meant does it affect your job opportunities?
- And I hear like no man's land with with reinvigoration, I think also comes job opportunities.
- And we believe that it's a low status for women, lack of job opportunities, lack of education, lack of independence for women.
- But even before that, like there was so many job opportunities that I lost out on because they had to go to my employees.
- And because there was no job opportunities where she was, and so she got excited, you know, packed up her bags, got to New Delhi.
Examples
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Although the city offered industrial jobs to men, it had few job opportunities for black women outside of domestic service.
Academic text (1994) -
After graduate school, I moved from Minnesota to California, where there were more job opportunities for me.
Fiction book (1992) -
Of course there are job opportunities out there right now.
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But even before that, like there was so many job opportunities that I lost out on because they had to go to my employees.
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I thought it might present more job opportunities...
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- Tell me about the job opportunity.
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First one is creating new industries that provide good job opportunities for the young generations.
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For those without job opportunities, we'll stimulate new opportunities, particularly in the inner cities where they live.
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Dorothy deliberately turned down job opportunities at the more prestigious schools because of class conflict.
Academic text (1995) -
With tuition costs rising, generally poor economic conditions, and reduced job opportunities, graduates' debt burdens in general are a great concern.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
∞
2.0
A time or situation that lets you do something important
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2.4
A job that is available for someone to take
A very good and rare chance you do not want to miss
Antonyms
How Promising
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a chance for employment' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'job' (a paid position) with 'opportunity' (a chance or prospect); the compound simply expresses an opportunity related to a job. This compositional pattern (noun + noun/ noun + chance) is common in English and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Job opportunity paints a simple picture: job means work and opportunity means a chance or an open door. Imagine a door opening at a workplace where someone can start work, and that's why job opportunity means 'a chance to get a job'.