Opportunity

Opportunity may refer to:

  • Opportunity International - An International microfinance network that lends to the working poor
  • Opportunity NYC is the experimental Conditional Cash Transfer program being launched in New York City
  • Opportunity, Washington, a city in the U.S.
  • Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, an important literary periodical of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Opportunity cost
  • Market opportunity
  • Equal opportunity
  • Business opportunity
  • Political opportunity
  • Means, motive, and opportunity
  • The Opportunity, a 17th-century play
  • "Opportunity", a song by Pete Murray

In space exploration:

  • Opportunity rover (MER-B), one of the two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission, the other being the Spirit rover.
  • 39382 Opportunity, an asteroid named after the Mars rover
  • Launch window, a window of opportunity

Famous quotes containing the words rover and/or opportunity:

    “One dreadful sound could the Rover hear,
    A sound as if, with the Inchcape Bell,
    The Devil below was ringing his knell.”
    —Robert Southey (1774–1843)

    “There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.”
    —Agatha Christie (1891–1976)