lost opportunity

collocation in English

meaningsoflostandopportunity

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lost
adjective
uk
/lɒst/us
/lɑːst/
not knowing where you are and how to get to ...
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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 oflostandopportunityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflost opportunity

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This might be seen as alostopportunity.
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This may constitute alostopportunityin a farming system where population growth and the associated land shortages are looming increasingly large.
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This would be a sadlylostopportunityat a time when new musical and technical initiatives are badly needed within the wider community.
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Thislostopportunityleaves the reader hungry for greater information and insights.
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While the debates were important, he believes that their price was a 'lostopportunityto produce historical knowledge for a whole generation ' (p. 15).
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Bruce can only mope about thelostopportunity.
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The cost is the present discounted value of future budgets after adjustments forlostopportunitycosts and transfer payments (as indicated above).
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The failure to scrutinize a wider range of policy areas ' right down the line ' also represented a majorlostopportunity.
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Any increased ability of later life stages to exploit higher, unoccupied feeding niches is off-set by thelostopportunityto exploit smaller hosts, particularly rodents that are abundant and ubiquitous.
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Young learners of modern foreign languages and their transition to the secondary phase: alostopportunity?
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For the environment, this is alostopportunityto take control of the emissions from cars.
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Clause 1 is alostopportunityto decriminalise the victim and protect the young.
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Moreover, there is the "lostopportunity" cost, in the case of post offices that sell other goods.
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That meanslostopportunity, lost income and lost job opportunities unless something is done.
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However, this is alostopportunityin not extending the function of the social fund commissioner to an appeal of last resort.
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Nevertheless, where shortfall represents a failure to achieve a planned level of service, it is alostopportunity.
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This is alostopportunity, in terms of growth, which we will no longer be able to allow.
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I feel rather that it represents alostopportunity.
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This is alostopportunitybecause, in practice, few employers will choose to sue trade unions.
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