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opportune | opportunely | opportuneness | opportunism | opportunist | opportunistic | opportunistic infection | opportunity | opportunity cost | opposability | opposable

opportunistic

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op=por=tun=is=tic

CIDE DICTIONARY

opportunisticadj. 
  •  taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit; practising opportunism.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  Causing disease only when the immune system of the host has been weakened, or other damage to the host provides special opportunity for invasion; -- of microorganisms or infectious diseases; as, opportunistic pathogens may infect a burn site; AIDS predisposes a patient to opportunistic infection.  [PJC]

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