Definitions for option

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option op·tion

Spelling: [op-shuh n]

IPA: /ˈɒp ʃən/

Option is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in option (inoopt).

Definitions for option

noun

1. the power or right of choosing.
2. something that may be or is chosen; choice.
3. the act of choosing.
4. an item of equipment or a feature that may be chosen as an addition to or replacement for standard equipment and features:
5. stock option.
6. a privilege acquired, as by the payment of a premium or consideration, of demanding, within a specified time, the carrying out of a transaction upon stipulated terms; the right, as granted in a contract or by an initial payment, of acquiring something in the future:
7. Football. a play in which a back has a choice of either passing or running with the ball.

verb (used with object)

1. to acquire or grant an option on:
2. to provide with optional equipment:

Origin of option

1595-1605; Latin optiōn- (stem of optiō) choice, equivalent to op(tāre) to select (see opt) + -tiōn- -tion

Examples for option

That would mean, of course, to wait until this first option had run out.'

Judging from current figures, there would be a substantial demand for this option, too.

I want that twenty thousand pounds before the option ceases.'

I understand that this is human trafficking, but I know that my people have no other option.

The only option was to get through the night and run away.

You should go, see Von Brent, and get a renewal of the option.

Also I should like to see a copy of the option, or the original document by which you hold the mine.'

What a fatality, that you have no better an option—either a Scylla or a Charybdis.

This simply is not an option for ACC to source indeterminately.

For everybody else, public schools were the only option—and these institutions often had an abysmal record.