Translation for 'missed opportunity' from English to French

missed opportunity

occasion {f} manquée

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missed

raté {adj} {past-p} [occasion]

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missed (telephone) calls

appels {m.pl} en absencetélécom.

film not to be missed

film {m} à voir absolumentfilm

film not to be missed [Br.]

film {m} à ne pas manquerfilm

We (very) nearly missed the train.

On a failli rater le train.

He is missed by his mother. [His mother misses him.]

Il manque à sa mère.

opportunity

occasion {f}

chance {f} [occasion favorable]

opportunité {f}

economic opportunity

potentiel {m} économiqueécon.

exceptional opportunity

occasion {f} spéciale

to miss an opportunity

laisser passer une occasion

rater une chance

rater le coche [fam.]

to seize the opportunity

saisir la balle à la volée [fig.]

saisir sa chance

to see one's opportunity

flairer sa chance

window of opportunity [fig.]

fenêtre {f} de tir [fig.]

at the earliest opportunity

aussi rapidement que possible {adv}

to miss one's opportunity

rater l'occasion

• Campaigners for the Stonehenge Alliance welcomed the decision, but Historic England expressed frustration over the "missed opportunity to remove the intrusive sight and sound of traffic past the iconic monument".
• Sandra tells Jackie about the missed opportunity but, fearing that Billy will be considered to be gay, both Jackie and Tony are outraged at the prospect of him becoming a professional ballet dancer.
• Herrmann always personally conducted his own works and given that he considered the composition among his best works, he regarded it as a missed opportunity.
• Larson was not able to think of a single thing to say to him and deeply regretted the missed opportunity.
• It is also mentioned in the 2015 movie "The Frontier" by the Luann character as a missed opportunity in her career.

• Pitt considered the war a missed opportunity to take advantage of a power in decline, although later he became an advocate of warmer relations with the Spanish in an effort to prevent them forming an alliance with France.
• Dolittle 2", its preoccupation with toilet humor and Murphy's restrained performance makes this a missed opportunity".
• By October 2003, visitor numbers were below 200 a day and there was criticism over a £2m annual subsidy from Manchester City Council, "The Guardian" architecture critic Deyan Sudjic remarked that the exhibits were a "spectacular missed opportunity", although Urbis did garner some praise in other quarters.
• If the company is too risk-averse, this leads to underperformance and a missed opportunity.
• He is best remembered for his missed opportunity to discover the planet Neptune in 1846.

• However, the UK government decided not to change the current law, which was described as "a missed opportunity" by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
• In her analysis, she suggests that the Waitangi Tribunal has been a missed opportunity to reconcile white guilt in New Zealand.
• The release was shrouded in controversy after reports that the song was actually inspired by a trip to nearby Rhyl, and there were rumours of an outcry among local councillors and businesses in Rhyl about the missed opportunity for tourism which would have been generated.
• Quests of this sort can be found by talking to a non-player character, and there may be no penalty for abandoning or ignoring these quests other than a missed opportunity or reward.
• It was a missed opportunity to do it right. The toxicity of the Common Core standards persuaded me that it is fruitless to rely on national curriculum standards as a solution to education problems.

• The Macartney Embassy is historically significant because it marked a missed opportunity by the Chinese to move toward some kind of accommodation with the West.
• In 1934, Cecil criticised the British government for the missed opportunity of gaining French co-operation at the conference after the electoral victory of the French Radicals.
• He cites that the film had a "disjointed feel", and called it a "missed opportunity" that suffered from being released near "The Matrix" and "Open Your Eyes", which he states did similar things that were accomplished better in those films.
• Ian Ritchie, founder of OWL, presented a TED talk in 2011 describing his missed opportunity to convert Guide to a graphical browser for the Web at its inception in 1990, titled "The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee".