Usually means: Fail to seize an opportunity.
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  1. miss the boat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. miss the boat: Merriam-Webster
  3. miss the boat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. miss the boat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. miss the boat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. miss the boat: Wiktionary
  7. miss the boat: Dictionary.com
  8. miss the boat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miss the boat: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miss the boat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miss the boat: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (miss the boat)

verb:  (intransitive) To fail to take advantage of an opportunity; to overlook or be too late to pursue an option or course of action.

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