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Meanings of timeserving in English

Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit.

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It's quite opportunistic at the moment with the way things are going.
The Irish Times
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Courtney A Hi Tony, There is a medical situation called 'opportunistic infection'.
Jamaica Observer
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So that's the point: Anybody can be called exploitative and called opportunistic.
Ebony
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For too long, opportunistic politicians have created an all or nothing system.
Reuters
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The Islanders took the lead in opportunistic fashion early in the first.
Reuters
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He has been an opportunist rather than a dealer in general ideas.
The Frontier in American History
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Nine minutes into the second half Fortune pounced for an opportunist score.
The Irish Times
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It was needless, opportunist theft and violence -nothing more, nothing less.
The Guardian
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Brilliant opportunist and decisive decision-maker, he realised his value and quickly consolidated.
The Guardian
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In politics an opportunist, opposing and supporting Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade.
The Felon's Track / History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland...
Usage of timeserving in English
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The antecedents of its principal members are those of timeserving politicians.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 / A Magazi...
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Hypocrisy and timeserving above are accompanied by hypocrisy and timeserving below.
Character
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Thusnelda, however, sympathized far more with the heroic spirit of her lover than with the timeserving policy of her father.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris...
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We have learned to distrust the responses of their timeserving oracles, and to laugh at the ignorant pretensions of their literary artisans.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 / A Magazin...
Timeserving through the time