# option
## English
### Etymology

From French option, from Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“I choose, select”). Equivalent to opt +‎ -ion.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒpʃən/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɑpʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

option (plural options)
* One of a set of choices that can be made. [from 19th c.]
** 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎:Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot.
** 2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 8 January 2012, page 74:Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
* The freedom or right to choose.
* (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile. [from mid-18th c.]
** 1977 August 13, Pala Bennett, Mary Jo Risher, Ann Foreman, “"I'm A Mother, And I'm A Good One."”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 6, page 8:There's a book out on us and there's gonna be a movie based on the book. ABC has bought the option for a movie to be made specially for T.V.
* (law, uncountable) The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another.
** 1928, Appeal to the Noble English Nation by the Committee of the Defenders of the Rights of Palestinian Arab Emigrants to the Palestinian Citizenship, page 10:At that time every emigrant who was made aware of such a notification submitted his application for option to the British Consuls within the period prescribed.
** 1998, Venice Commission, Consequences of State Succession for Nationality, →ISBN, page 45:A right of option, mostly in favour of the nationality of the predecessor State, has been accorded in most cases of partial State succession, either by treaty or by domestic legislation.
** 2012, Oliver W. Vonk, Dual Nationality in the European Union: A Study on Changing Norms […], →ISBN, page 243, note 154:This group constitutes around 9 percent of the total number of acquisitions of Dutch nationality through option.

#### Synonyms

* alternative
* choice
* possibility
* See also Thesaurus:option

#### Hypernyms

* (finance) (A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset): derivative

#### Hyponyms

* (finance) (A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset): American option, Bermudan option, European option, call option or call, put option or put, warrant

#### Derived terms

* co-option
* credit default option
* local option
* low exercise price option
* negative option
* network option time
* non-option
* not an option
* nuclear option
* optionable
* optional
* option button
* option-select
* option type
* stock option
* triple option
* zero option

#### Related terms

* opt
* optimal
* optimise, optimize
* optimism
* optimist
* optimistic

#### Translations

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### Verb

option (third-person singular simple present options, present participle optioning, simple past and past participle optioned)
* To purchase an option on something. [from 20th c.]
    The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
* (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.
** 1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy:The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.

### Further reading

* “option”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “option”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* potion

## Finnish
### Noun

option
* genitive singular of optio

### Anagrams

* opinto, opinto-

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin optiōnem (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“to choose, select”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔp.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

option f (plural options)
* option

### Further reading

* “option”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.