option
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
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Etymology: From French option, from Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“to choose, select”). Equivalent to opt + -ion.
Base: opt
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: options
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: options
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: optioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: optioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: optioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of a set of choices that can be made.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: The freedom or right to choose.
pos: noun
examples: The marriage had not been contracted by the father, who was apparently dead, but by an agnatic guardian, so that it was liable to cancellation at the option of the girl on her attaining puberty.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
This group constitutes around 9 percent of the total number of acquisitions of Dutch nationality through option.
gloss: To purchase an option on something.
pos: verb
examples: The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
gloss: To configure, by setting an option.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.
Synonyms: alternative
choice
possibility
option
contingency
Related words: opt
optimal
optimise
optimize
optimism
optimist
optimistic
Derived words: antioption
antioptionist
binary option
co-option
credit default option
greenshoe option
local option
low exercise price option
multioption
negative option
network option time
non-option
not an option
nuclear option
optionable
optionaire
optional
optionary
option button
optionee
optioneering
optionless
optionlike
optionor
option-select
option type
preoption
reoption
Samson Option
Samson option
stock option
suboption
swaption
triple option
zero option
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