OPTION
\ˈɒpʃən], \ˈɒpʃən], \ˈɒ_p_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of OPTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
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one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
By Princeton University
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the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
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The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
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A wishing; a wish.
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A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.
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A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; - annulled by Parliament in 1845.
By Oddity Software
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The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
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The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
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A wishing; a wish.
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A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.
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A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; - annulled by Parliament in 1845.
By Noah Webster.
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The right or power of choosing; as, you have the option of taking it or leaving it; act of choosing; choice; a right secured on property giving one the privilege of buying it, at a specified price, within a specified time.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
