option
Other forms: options
An option is a possibility or choice. In football, a quarterback with three wide receivers has (at least) three throwing options.
An option is something that can be chosen — it's a possibility. Even something crazy — like jumping off a cliff — is always an option, just not a good one. There are lots of technical uses of option in business and legal writing. If you have the option on a house, you have the right to buy it. In sports, a free agent has the option of joining another team. No matter what you do, it's nice to have options. When we have no options, we feel trapped.
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one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen“what option did I have?”synonyms: alternative, choicetypes:obversethe more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sidesHobson's choicethe choice of taking what is offered or nothing at allsoft optionan easier alternativewishthe particular preference that you havepossiblesomething that can be doneimpossiblesomething that cannot be donetype of:
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the act of choosing or selectingtypes:castingthe choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or moviesampling(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for studyelectionthe act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choiceballot, balloting, vote, votinga choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternativerandom samplingthe selection of a random sample; each element of the population has an equal chance of been selectedproportional sampling, representative sampling, stratified samplingthe population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratumintentionan act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry outappointment, assignment, designation, namingthe act of putting a person into a non-elective positioncall(sports) the decision made by an umpire or refereemovethe act of deciding to do somethingcasting lots, drawing lots, sortitionmaking a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawnresolutiona decision to do something or to behave in a certain mannerblock votea vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate representscumulative votean election in which each person has as many votes as there are positions to be filled and they can all be cast for one candidate or can be distributed in any mannersecret ballota vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are publicsplit ticketa ballot cast by a voter who votes for candidates from more than one partystraight ticketa ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one partymultiple votingthe act of voting in more than one place by the same person at the same election (illegal in U.S.)casting votethe deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tievetoa vote that blocks a decisionwrite-ina vote cast by writing in the name of a candidate who is not listed on the ballotabstentionthe act of declining to vote for or against somethingtype of:actionsomething done (usually as opposed to something said)
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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 forfeitedtypes:naked optiona put or call option for which the seller or buyer has no underlying security positioncovered optiona put or call option backed by the shares underlying the optioncall, call optionthe option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given dateput, put optionthe option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given datestraddlethe option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call optionsincentive option, incentive stock optionan option granted to corporate executives if the company achieves certain financial goalsstock optionthe right to buy or sell a stock at a specified price within a stated periodlock-up optionan option to buy the crown jewels offered to a white knight in order to forestall a hostile takeovercall optionan option to buyput optionan option to selltype of:
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