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   opportunistic

   /ˌɒpətjuːˈnɪstɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. exploiting immediate opportunities, especially regardless of planning or principle: "an opportunistic political lightweight"
   • ▪ (of a plant or animal) able to spread quickly in a previously unexploited habitat: "opportunistic populations colonizing new substrates"
   • ▪ (of a microorganism or an infection caused by it) affecting patients only or chiefly when the immune system is depressed.

   Derivatives

   • 1. opportunistically adverb

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   To be opportunistic is to quickly take advantage of a situation, usually in a way that's just plain wrong. You know how an opportunity is a chance to do something? When you're opportunistic, you take advantage of that chance, usually immediately.

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   What is opportunistic behaviour?

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   How strong is the opportunistic method?

   • The opportunistic method is strong just where the systematic is weak. In spite of the high regard in which he was held, this opportunistic proposal found little favor. The "State Socialist" and Reform attitude towards political democracy is indeed essentially opportunistic.

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   What are opportunistic conditions?

   • Opportunistic conditions refer to certain situations that provide opportunities for bacteria, viruses, or fungi to cause disease. These microorganisms are often ones that can lie dormant in body tissues for many years, such as the human herpes viruses, or that are extremely common but usually cause no symptoms of illness.

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   Is the word 'opportunistic' negative?

   • The problem in both examples is that the word opportunistic is being used without regard to its established negative connotations. Opportunistic: Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit. (American Heritage) Opportunistic: Exploiting opportunities with little regard to principle or consequences.

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   Are opportunistic people unethical?

   • Most of the time, this word is not neutral: people described as opportunistic are also considered unethical, like a business taking advantage of employees or customers in an opportunistic way. If someone dropped their wallet and someone else found it and kept it, that would be opportunistic.

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