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What does opportunistic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Taking advantage of situations that arise.
  2. Taking advantage of situations to advance one's own interests without regard for moral principles.
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The etiologic spectrum of pathogens was broad, including opportunistic as well as bacterial agents.
White Sturgeon have been described as opportunistic feeders, feeding on the bottom with their long snouts and using their barbels to detect food.
Yet wherever he went in the country of his birth he was reviled and denounced as opportunistic and even racist.
With each new anti-fraud test, opportunistic olive oil importers discover new ways to get around the rule.
The syndicalists despised equally the opportunistic orgmen of the parties and the breezy, compromising wheelers and dealers of business.
Young bluegills eat mainly zooplankton, but as they grow older, they become opportunistic and devour almost anything that fits into their mouths.

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