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Etymology

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FromFrenchoption, fromLatinoptiō(“choice; option; act of choosing”), fromoptō(“I choose, select”). Equivalent toopt +‎-ion.

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option (pluraloptions)

  1. One of a set ofchoices that can be made.[from 19th c.]
    • 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:
      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 littleoption but to point to the spot.
    • 2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, inAmerican Scientist‎[2], volume100, number 1, archived fromthe original on8 January 2012, page74:
      Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the wayoptions are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should presentoptions 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.
  2. Thefreedom orright to choose.
  4. (finance, law) Acontract giving the holder the right to buy or sell anasset at a setstrike price; can apply to financialmarkettransactions, or to ordinary transactions fortangible 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."”, inGay 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 theoption for a movie to be made specially for T.V.
  5. (law, uncountable) The acquiring or retention of anationality through personal choice as aright, bypassing selective legal mechanisms fornaturalization, 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, page10:
      At that time every emigrant who was made aware of such a notification submitted his application foroption to the British Consuls within the period prescribed.
    • 1998,Venice Commission,Consequences of State Succession for Nationality,→ISBN,page45:
      A right ofoption, 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,page243, note 154:
      This group constitutes around 9 percent of the total number of acquisitions of Dutch nationality throughoption.

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one of the choices that can be made
freedom or right to choose
financial product
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Verb

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option (third-person singular simple presentoptions,present participleoptioning,simple past and past participleoptioned)

  1. To purchase an option on something.[from 20th c.]
    The new novel wasoptioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
  2. (computing, dated) Toconfigure, by setting an option.
    • 1991, Martin D. Seyer,RS-232 made easy:
      The device that is to echo the characters should beoptioned for echoplexing.

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Finnish

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Noun

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option

  1. genitivesingular ofoptio

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinoptiōnem(“choice; option; act of choosing”), fromoptō(“to choose, select”).

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Noun

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option f (pluraloptions)

  1. option

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