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All opportunist synonyms

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noun opportunist

  • freebooter — a person who goes about in search of plunder; pirate; buccaneer.
  • speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • buccaneer — A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • chancer — You can refer to someone as a chancer if you think they use opportunities for their own advantage and often pretend to have skills they do not have.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • vacillator — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
  • bounder — If you call a man a bounder, you mean he behaves in an unkind, deceitful, or selfish way.
  • go-getter — an enterprising, aggressive person.
  • ingrate — an ungrateful person.
  • timeserver — a person who shapes his or her conduct to conform to the opinions of the time or of persons in power, especially for selfish ends.
  • trimmer — the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.

adjective opportunist

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