occasione

Definitions of occasione
  1. noun
    a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
    synonyms: appiglio, momento, opportunità, pretesto, rampino
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    types:
    udienza
    an opportunity to state your case and be heard
    appiglio, momento, opportunità, pretesto, rampino, sede
    an opportunity to do something
    liquidazione, saldo, svendita, vendita
    an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
  2. noun
    an opportunity to do something
    synonyms: appiglio, momento, opportunità, pretesto, rampino, sede
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    types:
    liquidazione, saldo, svendita, vendita
    an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
    fiera di beneficienza
    a sale of miscellany; often for charity
    realizzo, svendita
    a sale to reduce inventory
    type of:
    appiglio, momento, opportunità, pretesto, rampino
    a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
  3. noun
    an advantageous purchase
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    type of:
    acquisto, compera, spesa
    something acquired by purchase
  4. noun
    events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
    synonyms: argomento, cagione, causa, materia, motivo, origine, perché, principio, ragione, titolo
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    antecedente, antefatto, anteriore, anticipazione, precedente, premessa
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
    fattore
    anything that contributes causally to a result
    type of:
    genesi
    an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
  5. noun
    reason
    synonyms: argomento, cagione, causa, materia, motivo, origine, perché, principio, ragione, titolo
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    type of:
    ragionamento, ragione
    a rational motive for a belief or action
  6. noun
    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
    synonyms: circostanza, contesto, cornice, momento, volta
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    type of:
    ambiente, cornice, mondo
    the totality of surrounding conditions
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