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Meaning of land of opportunity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. An unofficial nickname for Arkansas, a state of the United States.
  2. The United States.
    dated, idiomatic, informal

Examples

“They say America is the land of opportunity. Opportunity for what? For children to run in the dirty streets? - Mr Mousekewitz in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West”
“It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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