Betekenis van opening In het Nederlands

• 0 a hole or space that something or someone can pass through:

  • The children crawled through an opening in the fence.

• 1 a ceremony at the beginning of an event or activity:

  • The official opening of the new school will take place next month.

• 2 the beginning of something:

  • The opening of the novel is amazing.

  • If you want to get anywhere in chess, you have to study the various openings.

• 3 a job or an opportunity to do something:

  • There's an opening for an editorial assistant in our department.

• 4 happening at the beginning of an event or activity:

  • her opening remarks

  • the opening night

• 5 the first time a continuing event is officially ready for the public:

  • A huge crowd turned out for the opening of the new show.

• 6 the beginning of something:

  • The opening of the symphony is by far the best part.

• 7 a hole or space:

  • The children crawled through an opening in the fence.

• 8 an available position or job:

  • I hear you have an opening in sales.

• 9 an occasion when a new store, restaurant, etc. starts doing business:

  • A week after the opening of the restaurant, cars were queueing up all along the street.

  • Pre-tax profits rose, with new store openings running, on average, at three a month.

  • a grand/an official opening The store is still committed to its grand opening in October.

  • an opening ceremony

• 10 the amount of time that a store, restaurant, etc. is open:

  • One worker at the store criticized the problems caused by 24-hour opening.

  • Our hours of opening are 8am to 6pm.

  • Most stores have late opening in the run-up to Christmas.

• 11 a job that is available:

  • an opening for sth They have openings for carpenters and electricians.

  • The company has about 50 job openings.

• 12 the opportunity to do something:

  • The failure of this project has left an opening in the market.

• 13 the beginning of business for the day on a stock market, or the level of prices at the beginning of its business day:

  • The deal was announced ahead of the stock market opening.

  • a strong/weak opening A weak opening on the US markets intensified London selling.

• 14 a situation in which a country allows more foreign trade and investment than it did before:

  • opening to sth Since China's opening to the outside world in 1978, the market economy system has been almost entirely established.

  • opening of sth It is hoped that the agreement will pave the way for an opening of American borders.

• 15 a situation in which a country makes jobs, markets, etc. available to more people than before:

  • the opening of sth Because of the opening of electric power markets in the US, many new opportunities presented themselves closer to home.

• 16 coming near the beginning of a speech, event, activity, etc.:

  • opening comments/remarks The speaker will make a few opening remarks.

• 17 coming at the beginning of business for the day on a stock market:

  • The Dow Jones quickly turned an opening 53-point rise into a 162-point loss.