plum opportunity
- noun
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oportunidad excepcional
- He didn't want to miss the plum opportunity to study abroad.
Examples
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Landing that job was a plum opportunity for her career advancement.
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This job offer is a real plum opportunity!
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The merger presented a plum opportunity for investors to profit.
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She found a plum opportunity to work with Google.
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The job offer in Paris was a plum opportunity for her career as an artist.
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He felt that the promotion was a plum opportunity that he could not pass up.
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Attending the exclusive seminar was a plum opportunity to network with industry leaders.
Synonyms
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3.2
A rare chance to do something important
Antonyms
How Desirable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'plum' here is used metaphorically to mean a highly desirable thing rather than the fruit; a B1 learner who only knows the literal meaning of 'plum' may not automatically infer this figurative sense. However, because 'opportunity' signals a chance and 'plum' carries a positive evaluative sense, the overall meaning is partially recoverable by analogy, making it somewhat predictable but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Plum opportunity comes from the idea of a ripe plum as a sweet, special treat; one popular story says people started using 'plum' to mean something very good and much wanted. So a plum opportunity is a 'very good' or 'rare' chance you should not miss.