opening
noun
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opening noun (HOLE)
Synonyms
opening noun (CEREMONY)
opening noun (BEGINNING)
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- birth
- commencement
- inception
- initiation
- introduction
- jumping-off point
- kickoff
- square
- start
- starter
- starting point
- starting time
- the thin end of the wedge idiom
- thin
- trigger
- zero hour
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opening noun (OPPORTUNITY)
[ C ]
a job or an opportunity to do something:
- There are several openings in the firm for suitably qualified applicants.
- Since qualifying as a teacher he's been unable to find an appropriate opening.
- An opening for a sales assistant is being advertised in the local paper.
- She's looking for an opening into the fashion business.
- Her retirement has created an opening for a new head of department.
- another/a second bite at/of the cherry idiom
- be in with a shout idiom
- best bet idiom
- bite
- break
- foot
- half
- hay
- headroom
- it's now or never idiom
- last chance saloon
- look in
- pass
- scope
- shop window
- smell blood idiom
- sneak peek
- the American dream
- there are plenty of fish in the sea idiom
- window
opening act
The music should have been louder, but it was an interesting opening act nonetheless.
- I did a few opening gags about the band that had been on before me.
- Her clever opening gambit gave her an early advantage.
- "I hear you're a friend of Jamie's, " was her opening gambit.
- It was the song's opening line, a series of profanities, that caused the record to be banned on the radio station.
- In his opening salvo the speaker fiercely attacked the government's record on healthcare.
- be in the first flush of idiom
- be/get in on the ground floor idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- develop
- get down to business idiom
- grow
- half-cocked
- here
- here goes! idiom
- hit the ground running idiom
- inaugurate
- motion
- start out
- start/set/get the ball rolling idiom
- stirring
- strike out (somewhere)
- stuck
- wheel
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