waste an opportunity

This page is about the collocation waste an opportunity

collocation pattern: verb + noun

Meaning

to not make use of an opportunity or chance

For example

  • I wasted many opportunities when I was young.

  • I had an opportunity to join a band, but wasted it by turning up drunk.

Note:
Also "waste a chance"

Quick Quiz

If you waste an opportunity, you

a. make the opportunity worse

b. give the wrong person an opportunity

c. don't take advantage of an opportunity
a) make the opportunity worse b) give the wrong person an opportunity c) don't take advantage of an opportunity

Contributor: Matt Errey