golden opportunity

collocation in English

meaningsofgoldenandopportunity

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golden
adjective
uk
/ˈɡəʊl.dən/us
/ˈɡoʊl.dən/
made ...
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opportunity
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.əˈtʃuː.nə.ti/us
/ˌɑː.pɚˈtuː.nə.t̬i/
an occasion or situation that makes it possible to do something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of ...
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(Definition ofgoldenandopportunityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Instead, it is underedited and overpriced: the publishers missed agoldenopportunity.
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Such pockets of malcontents offered the foreign ruler agoldenopportunityto subvert his rival from within.
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The split thus offers agoldenopportunityto study the factors that lead politicians in a parliamentary context to buck party discipline.
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His rational assessment tells him it is not agoldenopportunity.
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He is also of the opinion that the results of the 1977 elections thwarted agoldenopportunityto negotiate a resolution through the mediation of the central government.
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Now - during this presidency - is yourgoldenopportunityto take initiatives.
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This is agoldenopportunityto direct this agenda for the future and in preparation for enlargement.
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Tomorrow we shall propose a trulygoldenopportunity, and we have no right not to seize it.
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There is agoldenopportunityto create jobs in those areas.
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This is agoldenopportunity, and we must seize it.
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The worst thing about it is that by that further injection of inflation into our system we lost what might have been agoldenopportunity.
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This is thegoldenopportunity, but instead of encouragement, we see that land is being taken away from allotment holders.
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They have had agoldenopportunityto give us export-led growth.
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We had agoldenopportunityof putting exports on board.
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It would be folly to throw away thegoldenopportunitybefore us by introducing the social chapter or the minimum wage.
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This presumably would be agoldenopportunityfor this committee to deal with problems such as that.
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This amendment would have given him agoldenopportunity.
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What agoldenopportunityto be exploited by this country's textile manufacturers.
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