Usually means: Initial opportunities for progress, entry.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word openings:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. openings: Merriam-Webster
  2. openings: Collins English Dictionary
  3. openings: Vocabulary.com
  4. Openings, opening's, openings: Wordnik
  5. openings: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. openings: Wiktionary
  7. openings: Dictionary.com
  8. openings: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Openings (The Killing): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. openings: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. openings: Legal dictionary
  2. openings: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. openings: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. openings: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Openings: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  3. openings: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See opening as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (opening)

adjective:  Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.
adjective:  (cricket) Of the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket.
adjective:  (cricket) Of the batsman who opens the innings or of a bowler who opens the attack}}
noun:  An act or instance of making or becoming open.
noun:  A gap permitting passage through.
noun:  An act or instance of beginning.
noun:  Something that is a beginning.
noun:  The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
noun:  The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
noun:  The first few measures of a musical composition.
noun:  The first few moves in a game.
noun:  A vacant position, especially in an array.
noun:  A time available in a schedule.
noun:  An unoccupied employment position.
noun:  An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
noun:  (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
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