From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha golden opportunitya golden opportunityCHANCE/OPPORTUNITYa good chance to get something valuable or to be very successful He wasted a golden opportunity when he missed from the penalty spot. → golden
Examples from the Corpus
a golden opportunity• Personally, I think you have a golden opportunity before you.• By not buying that stock, I missed a golden opportunity to become a millionaire.• But Tories have attacked the decision and say a golden opportunity to boost foreign trade links could have been lost.• Tamny was appalled that Harleston had passed up a golden opportunity to dismiss Jeffries.• But the country as a whole may have missed a golden opportunity to put its fiscal house in order.• For the Treasury this presented a golden opportunity to recover its traditional dominance which it had lost during the war.• As a result a company may have a golden opportunity to remove its operators from their central role in controlling production.• The agenda gave Sutton a golden opportunity to stamp his authority on the paper.• Classic footage, but a golden opportunity wasted to trace his career from his Olympic gold medal days. 