opening

o|pen|ing1 [ `oup(ə)nıŋ ] noun ***

▸ 1 when something opens to public

▸ 2 (hole) where something opens

▸ 3 beginning

▸ 4 opportunity/job

▸ 5 act of opening something

1. ) count an occasion when a new store, public building. etc. starts working and being available for people to use or visit:

opening of: the opening of a new airport

grand opening (=an opening celebrated with a big party or a sale): Lots of movie stars were invited to the mall's grand opening.

2. ) count a hole or place where something opens:

Alison squeezed through a narrow opening in the fence.

The emergency medical team had to make an opening in her windpipe.

3. ) count the beginning of something:

He appears briefly at the opening of the play.

4. ) count an opportunity to do something:

opening for: His comments created an opening for efforts to resolve the crisis.

a ) a job that needs a person to do it:

We have several openings in the sales division.

5. ) count or uncount the act of opening something:

opening of: The opening of the new store will lead to an increase in traffic.

opening

o|pen|ing 2 [ `oupənıŋ ] adjective only before noun *

1. ) showing that something is open or has begun:

the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games

the president's opening address

2. ) the first of several similar things:

The opening statement in the trial took 30 minutes.

The narrator introduces himself in the opening paragraph.