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Option

noun

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.

One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen. Synonyms: alternative, choice. "There no other alternative" , "My only choice is to refuse"

The act of choosing or selecting. Synonyms: choice, pick, selection. "You can take your pick"

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"Option" Quotes from Famous Books

... hundred is a first payment. I want a renewable option. If I don't cross over with the balance in thirty ...

— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester

... which stained the tartan on the Plains of Abraham. Let the Irishman or the Englishman whose kindred clubbed their muskets at Bloody Creek, or charged the enemy at Queenston,[3] have a bit of the land their fathers fought for. Let them have at least the option of ownership and occupation, and a bridge to convey them over. Such a policy would be conservative of the rights of property and permanently relieve the people. It would silence agrarian complaint and enlarge ...

— The Tribune of Nova Scotia - A Chronicle of Joseph Howe • W. L. (William Lawson) Grant

... clothes. One of these slaves shall maintain the fire beneath thee, while another shall anoint thy wretched limbs with oil, lest the roast should burn. Now, choose between such a scorching bed and the payment of a thousand pounds of silver; for, by the head of my father, thou hast no other option." ...

— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten

... objections, as usual, in order to have the pleasure of being besought and entreated; but, when she was gained over, it was comparatively easy to induce old Milnwood to accept of a servant, whose wages were to be in his own option. An outhouse was, therefore, assigned to Mause and her son for their habitation, and it was settled that they were for the time to be admitted to eat of the frugal fare provided for the family, until their own establishment should be completed. ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... is one ward that is full of breweries and Germans. In a recent election a local option ...

— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

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