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opportunity window

opportunity window is the alternative form of window of opportunity.

Meaning of window of opportunity

Noun

window of opportunity (plural windows of opportunity)

  1. A (usually limited) period of time in which suitable action can achieve success.
    • U.S. officials also thought a preventive war [against the Soviet Union] would be costly, and U.S. allies would be disapproving. Thus U.S. leaders saw a fading window of opportunity, but the opportunity was not very attractive; it would not be followed by vulnerability; and it probably would not be...1999, Stephen Van Evera, “Power Shifts: Windows of Opportunity and Vulnerability”, in Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 102

Forms of opportunity window

pluralopportunity windows

Questions about opportunity window

What is opportunity window the alternative form of?
Opportunity window is the alternative form of window of opportunity.

Words near opportunity window in the dictionary

  1. opportunity rooms
  2. opportunity seldom knocks twice
  3. opportunity servicing
  4. opportunity shop
  5. opportunity shops
  6. opportunity window
  7. opportunity windows
  8. opportunityless
  9. opportunivore
  10. opportunivores
  11. oppos

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